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A Poem for a Thursday #289
Joyce Sutphen served as Minnesota’s Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2021. The language of her poetry is simple and direct and thus pulls the reader into the wonder of the natural world and human experience. Sutphen’s poetry “explores themes of family, memory, and the passage of time, often grounded in specific locations and imbued with a quiet sense of wonder.” The second half of my life will be blackto the white rind of the old and fading moon.The second half of my life will be waterover the cracked floor of these desert years.I will land on my feet this time,knowing at least two languages, and whomy friends are. I will…
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Buy the Books
Last week my husband and I went out to lunch and to Barnes & Noble. We have been trying to go out to lunch for over a month, but our house has been germ-ridden since last month when I wrote a post about canceling our trip to Connecticut. It was a lovely afternoon. I puttered around the bookstore but didn’t buy anything and then had a good, though way too pricey, gluten-free burger. Life felt like it was returning to normal after the woe and doom that has filled our house. (Yes that is dramatic. Please, just let me have the drama.) Last night, at 1:30 a.m. I woke up…
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A Poem for a Thursday #288
When I first read today’s poem I immediately thought of this photo that I took a few years ago when my sister and niece were visiting. We rented kayaks and spent a couple of hours puttering around on a nearby lake. It was lovely and so were the water lilies. Sarah Teasdale was born in Missouri in 1884. Her first poem was published by the local newspaper. She went on to publish collections of poetry that were well-received for their “lyrical mastery and romantic subject matter.” Teasdale won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1918. If you have forgotten water lilies floatingOn a dark lake among mountains in the afternoon…
