Friday, May 7, 2021

Two Poems and a Poem: Ritual One, Day 25

 Two Poems:

“Seventeen Funerals” by Richard Blanco 

“Thank You Note for a Quilt” by Barbara Kingsolver 


A Poem:

Not Today

by ljkemp

My selected poem today are about death, one in

tragedy, the other in the passing from one generation

to the next. But today I do not want to. I do not 

want to sit in the sadness of death, to wallow in

writing of time and people of places gone by. My 

eyes blooming open with the light of one more

morning, I want to fall in love with the time on my

hands. Today I want to live.


The sentence in italics is a combined sentence; clause before the comma from Blanco, and the clause after the comma from Kingsolver.

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