Monday, November 30, 2020

Snowbirds (Monday Poem)

by Lin Ling
 
 
A pure white feather floats down.
Oh, at that moment
We both hope that happiness
May also be like a white bird,
Quietly descending.
 
 
 
from Seasons
by Warabe Aska
Doubleday, 1990
 
 
 

Monday, November 23, 2020

Trouble, Fly (Monday Poem)

 by Susan Marie Swanson


Trouble, fly
out of our house.
We left the window
open for you.
 
Fly like smoke from a chimney.
Fly like the whistle from a train.
Fly far, far
away from my family,
mumbling in their sleep.
 
Trouble, fly.
Let our night
be a night of peace.
 
 
 
from This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort
selected by Georgia Heard
Candlewick Press, 2002 
 

Monday, November 16, 2020

Mouse (Monday Poem)

by Jack Prelutsky
 
 
If not for the cat
And the scarcity of cheese
I could be content.
 
 
 
from If Not For the Cat 
Haiku by Jack Prelutsky
HarperCollins, 2004
  

Monday, November 9, 2020

Commitment in a City (Monday Poem)

 by Margaret Tsuda
 
 
On the street we two pass,
I do not know you.
I did not see
if you are --
fat/thin,
dark/fair
young/old.
 
If we should pass again
within the hour,
I would not know it.
Yet --
I am committed to 
love you.
 
You are part of my city,
my universe, my being.
If you were not her
to pass me by,
a piece would be missing
from my jigsaw-puzzle day.
 
 
 
from This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort
selected by Georgia Heard
Candlewick Press, 2002 
 

Monday, November 2, 2020

Prayer to the Moon (Monday Poem)

by Anonymous (Ethiopia)
 
 
May you be for us a moon of joy and happiness.
Let the stranger come to the end of his journey.
And those who remain at home dwell safely in their houses . . . .
May you be a moon of harvest and of calves.
May you be a moon of restoration and good health.
 
 
 
from Seasons
by Warabe Aska
Doubleday, 1990