so, HALLELUJAH!, I am done with school (till Fall)! Now I need a week to put my out of whack house back together, and then I can curl up with my long list of neglected blogs. Baby leave a light on for me....I'll be back to reading soon!
I haven't done Mama Kat's Writers Workshop in forever and a day, so I wanted to jump on it today. The prompt I chose was "tomorrow I'll do it differently". I had a poem that I wrote in class this semester that dealt with the ending of my marriage, and those last few days of knowing the inevitable was coming, but just wanting to hang on to my life for a little longer. It needed a title, and the prompt fit it perfectly.
So have a read and remember all you twitfaced Google plagiarists, everything I put up here is copyrighted. Ok :).
TOMORROW I'LL DO IT DIFFERENTLY:
Clouds soft-step over the vacancy
The sweat of approach
Deficiently immune
There is no romance in anticipation
Just as there is no steel in bridges*
Night shows up in her tinted-window blouse.
Day rolls up mortality's riddle
and gives up for the time being.
Heavy changes
The way we price each full, red silence.
Just sit with me for a while in this blackish impatience
Thin Lines drawn around our cobbled shoulders
Moon, the song of a headlight in our faces.
Don't draw an outline,
We're all in it,
Like the broken buzzing of the wide,
the base living substance
one clasps in a bundle.
~Jennifer Peterson
*these two lines attributed to Mark Strand
What other blog is going to force you into reading contemporary poetry, huh? :)
17 comments:
Lovely, lovely...
You have a talent.
Liked your post. I wish I could be talented like that and write poems. Have a great day!
That's a beautiful poem, haunting in a way just because we know what you were going through. I hope things are better now!
Stopping by from Mama Kat's today!
That's a great poem! Aren't you glad to be done with school for the summer? I just graduated on Saturday and I can't TELL YOU, how happy I am to be DONE DONE! :)
You are very talented Jennifer! Glad you have a break from school.
Lisa Q
My favorite line:
"don't draw an outline,
we're all in it."
If that were the poem in and of itself I would still love it!
Beautiful!
Just stopping by from Mama Kat's, just wanted to say that your poem is incredible. Your are truely talented.
love your poetry, love love love it. enjoy your summer days. i'm starting all 7 harry books in anticipation of the movie coming out in july. what book will you start reading now that school is over?
I'm glad that you're putting school behind you and charging head to what REALLY matters! Long live blogging!
Very nice. WHat did you get on the assignment??
And most of us wouldn't dare think of plagarisng your work without due credit being given, because we write, right? Right!
Congrats on finishing the semester!
Cheers.
T,
I think I might finally join the rest of the world and read Twilight! My kids want me to read the newest Fablehaven book to them too.
That's deep stuff Jennifer. Good job.
You're right - you are the only blog I read that gives me all the bloggy goodness along with some contemporary poetry!
NEWS - I am starting grad classes on June 1st. Woohoo!!! So I'll be able to feel your pain shortly. Haha!
Big, fat, WA-HOO for finishing school for the summer!! My last few years I did summer classes and boy did I treasure those three-week breaks from homework. That's the other thing--college is so nice that when you're done, you're done, right? I guess this applies more over Christmas when you realize college is so much better than high school because there's no huge assignment due Jan 2 from the one Scrooge teacher.
"Day rolls up mortality's riddle
and gives up for the time being."
seriously...how do you DO that?
Can I just vacation in your brain for a little exercise one day?
:D
welcome back to posting for the summer!! you've been missed
Found you through Mama Kats. LOVE your blog and what a great poem! Congrats on the start of your summer break.
Love it. That whole last stanza is just beautiful!
I want to go back to school...
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