[stylist] something different

[Robert Leslie Newman]

Chris is a poet and didn't know it, (MMM, maybe we should look at his feet,
they maybe "Long Fellows."



-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jacqueline Williams
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:12 PM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [stylist] something different

Chris,
This is a really wonderful poem. It is an anaphora, in case you did not
know. Look it up if you are interested.
The repetition of your line holds something interesting and unexpected in
each stanza.
Jackie


-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Kuell
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:55 AM
To: Stylist
Subject: [stylist] something different

Today is a beautiful day in Connecticut, sunny and about 60 degrees, so I
decided to take my pac Mate outside and see what happened. This is the
result.

 

Sitting Under a Sycamore Tree

 

By Chris Kuell

 

I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree

Off in the distance I hear children playing at recess

Run Jenny run

You're it

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down

 

I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree

Listening to the insects

Imagining the praying mantis sawing away at the wasp in its clutches

The wasp licking the honey off the tongue 

of the bee it just killed 

 

I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree

Remembering my mother-in-law

So sick at the end she couldn't speak

My wife's mournful sobs

Glad that I'm blind

 

I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree

Listening to a book

'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'

Sun on my face

Living in the present

I can't help but smile

 

I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree

Trying to find the words

For a letter to a friend whose husband recently died

Dear Janet

Procrastinating

 

I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree

Dancing with the muse

Glad to be alive

 

23 Feb 2012

 

 

 
_______________________________________________
Writers Division web site:
http://www.nfb-writers-division.net <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/>

stylist mailing list
stylist at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
stylist:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/jackieleepoet%40cox.net


_______________________________________________
Writers Division web site:
http://www.nfb-writers-division.net <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/>

stylist mailing list
stylist at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
stylist:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/newmanrl%40cox.net