F - Two Poems, Farther up the Road and Families
A "treat" today, two poems!
FARTHER UP THE ROAD
FARTHER UP THE ROAD
Farther up the
road
They say the skies
are always blue
Father up the road
I hope they’re
saying what is true
I’ve been traveling
so long
With this heavy
load of mine
Father up the road
To lay it down
will sure be fine
The road stretches
out before me
I’m a pilgrim on
my way
Each step I take
is nearer
To the everlasting
day
Kept cool in summer
Marked our growth on the door frame
Bedtime stories and tucking in,
©2019 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved
FAMILIES
This was from a poetry prompt to take the last lines from a book I was reading. That was John Grisham's The Reckoning. The last line is, "What a family," he said softly." In the novel, the character speaking was not being complimentary to his family, but here I kept to the positive!
This was from a poetry prompt to take the last lines from a book I was reading. That was John Grisham's The Reckoning. The last line is, "What a family," he said softly." In the novel, the character speaking was not being complimentary to his family, but here I kept to the positive!
“What a family,”
he said softly.”
In reading
Grisham’s words,
I think
I think
of families.
We laughed with
family.
Cried with them.
Kept warm in
winter
sitting side by
side
Kept cool in summer
with frozen pops.
Ran through the
sprinkler
naked and screaming
Marked our growth on the door frame
while mother
stirred the oatmeal
and laughed,
as brother stood
Bedtime stories and tucking in,
kisses to sleep
kisses for the
hurts,
the skinned knees
and heartaches.
Memories and
photographs
of holidays long
past
Family picnics.
Family fights
Though miles
separate,
letters written
few,
phone calls seldom made,
what binds us
lasts forever.
We can all say it
again,
“What a family.”
©2019 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved
These are both really good!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteI could see the first poem set to a song. Beautiful :)
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Thank you, that means so much!
DeleteThumbs up on both of these. And how fun to see the family photos.
ReplyDeleteThanks. It was fun to pick them out. I like old black and white photos. The baby in the photos is me!
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