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

 

 

 

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 

 

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

  

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 

 

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