NaPoWriMo Day Nine and a Little Administrivia

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Mary Beth Frezon

Was tangled up in a new project that doesn’t relate to painting or poetry or even cooking! So here I am without too many words but still. I did go out a few times today and take a whiff of air and bask in the glow of the daffodils.

Not sure if the glow of daffodils
will ever not delight
but if it does please,
please just tip my cold body
into the garden to feed them.

In other news, I whacked at the dog rose out front a bit but decided I’d put regular trash in the bin first and then cut up the prickly stuff and put it on top. And the new project has made me poke at this poor blog a bit and figure out why some things weren’t working. Now the catcam is back in business and has photos of the current cats so you can try to ID them.

when daffodil joy
in some spring does not find me,
I’ll lie there with them.

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NaPoWriMo Day Eight

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Mary Beth Frezon

The sun reached backward
to leave cooling eastern clouds
with a reminder.
Always returning
and always disappearing
night and darkness comes.
Between the farewells,
some colorless deer forage
in the gray moment.

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NaPoWriMo Day Seven

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Mary Beth Frezon

Gave myself over to doing some web-stuff today – what a time-sink that always is but still, a job done in the end. In passing, I saw a quote that I chewed on while working until this came out:

Put out your hand

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks — Francois Rabelais

Put out your hand – palm up
a classic gesture – checking for rain
to see if the sky is falling
to see if the world is failing
to see if your hand is full of larks.

Put out your hand – gently now
while you crouch on the ground, bent
with pain or grief or anger or despair
to see what’s at your fingertips
to see if the world is still there.

and the reprise:

Open your two hands –
not to catch the falling sky
but to catch the larks.

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NaPoWriMo Day Six

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Mary Beth Frezon

Feels like forgiveness
Sitting here in the sun
painting the waves of daffodils
The ones who survived the snow
a few days ago, bent, now standing.
You can’t tell them from those
more newly bloomed. And more to come.
I wonder at what I might have done
to have earned such redemption.

You may be stuck with the daffodils awhile – hard not to sit with them, take photos of them, paint and photograph them – in their rather brief yearly visit.

feels like forgiveness
sharing sun with daffodils
what did I do right?

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NaPoWriMo Day Five

Posted on April 5, 2021 by Mary Beth Frezon

Today was really a primo day in April. I did an important errand in the morning, came home and sat in the front yard to paint briefly. Sometimes you just have to remember that generations of painters and writers have tried and will try to describe days like this.

There’s not enough yellow
for the day today –
the daffodils and their
impossible green waving
in the late-afternoon.
From here the glow might
be the sun or
the nodding waves of april
praying over curly daylilies
rising up from winter.

be in the moment
be one with the daffodils
be one with sunlight

And THIS amazing postcard was in my mailbox this morning.

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