Nancy Chambers Poems

What will you do
Now that you are turning twenty-two?
Sit and wait for good news to come to you?
You can’t change your past even if you try
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In my garden, under the starlight
On a hot hazy summer night
Listening to the pond’s waterfall
I can hear a nightingale call
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He dropped a box in the marshes
Was he up to no good?
Was it evil?
Then we saw cats
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Yesterday with a prayer
We went to see King Tut who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Back in Egypt he does lay
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A: Historical Tribute

Johannes Kepler wrote
His “Ode to the Telescope”
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Red and Gold leaves
Bringing in the sheaves
Misty mornings
Frost warnings
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The water is empty except for one
As I swim with the setting sun
Birds fly home to roost for the night
Soon the bats begin their flight
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February 2nd, a rodent’s inane holiday
To predict whether Spring is near or far away
Rooted in Candlemas tradition
The groundhog was a later addition
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