Traveling
This past week, I traveled overseas by myself for the first time in a very long time. It gave me a chance to look at things and think about things slowly, without interruption. Spending time near lakes, I found myself staring off across the surface of the water many times, just staring at and watching the various reflections move and distort as the wind played with the surface of the water.
Overdue Conversations
We’ve all had these, those conversations with friends and family that have been years in the making, the moment when you’re finally alone and you can say whatever is on your mind, whatever has been weighing you down.
Food
This is one that needs no introduction outside of, perhaps, chicken divan. How many people know this dish? I wonder.
If you know what it is, or don’t know, leave me a comment below.
Family Issues
Family can be, well, awkward. Skeletons in the closet, elephants in the room, for whatever reason, they have a way of piling upon family histories, sometimes across generations.
Everyone, I suspect, will have or has moments in their lives when they are faced with making decisions about whether to be courageous enough to talk about these things or just let sleeping dogs lie.
Context
This is a poem that is based on an experience, but I’d rather not comment on it because I think allowing the reader to provide the context, or imagine the context, gives it strength and depth.
Window Views
The tiny things you see when sitting alone, and the feelings they can evoke, the meanings they can have. It’s interesting how we can create narratives from nothing. How we can find visual references in the world around us and apply them to ourselves and our current situations in ways that seem significant, but in reality, probably aren’t.
Cheeky
Poetry, I think, is allowed to be trivial and humorous. There is a place for simple, basic observations of everyday objects like this one.
In today’s world, which has changed so much in the past twenty years, I wonder how many of you can relate to this poem, and the surprise of finding something like this in an airport restroom these days.