This post will catch us up to today with our second offering for National Poetry Writing Month.
From our Leelanau area poets…
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Counting by Silvia Smoglian Gans
2 bits
4 bits
13 steps
9 gulps
100 jumps on Luna’s trampoline
66 seconds of microwave time
6 minutes for the French press
After 6 seconds grinding
Times 3
Counting pills by fives and tens
Singing triplets by feeling beats
Number of likes, why care?
Everything beats to its own rhythm
Counting helps discover why
Numbers appear everywhere and nowhere
At the same time
And take up residence in my mind.
8 in China
13 is it lucky or not
Number 9, Number 9
17 year cicadas
1200 years since such early Cherry blossom blooms
666?
69
Trusting numbers
Fractions and %
The reliability of significant numbers
Never stop counting
To prove I’m here
When I stop counting
I, stop.
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Seasonal Greetings by Cherry K Kowitz
Soon they will come
The smiling , drunken hordes of downstaters
The motorcycle brigades and the boat bros
The hot days and the biting insect Air Force
Soon there will be more contracts than contractors
And some poor homeowners will pull short
On the straw of hired workmen
Their bathroom project left half finished
Soon our one lane roads become head on raceways
Plates from every Midwest state
Marveling at the blue jewel
Randomly braking for road signs
Soon they will come
To burst the illusion of a quiet place to live
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Untitled 2 by Larry Mawby
sun on naked trees
cuts sharp shadows
into brown leaves
onto white crocus
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Verbiage Distillation #02 by Mimi DiFrancesca
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