Blue Willow Poem by Jody Gladding

Blue Willow

Rating: 4.4


A pond will deepen toward the center like a plate
we traced its shallow rim my mother steering
my inner tube past the rushes where I looked
for Moses we said it was a trip around the world
in China we wove through curtains of willow
that tickled our necks let's do that again
and we'd double back idle there lifting
our heads to the green rain
swallows met over us later I dreamed
of flying with them we had all the time
in the world we had the world
how could those trees be weeping?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Seamus O Brian 27 September 2016

Simply but powerfully reminds us that life is made of many small moments. Live in each one, appreciate the journey, find the end of the journey in each step.

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Barry Middleton 27 September 2016

Lovely images and memories make a very good poem.

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Edward Kofi Louis 27 September 2016

Toward the center! ! Nice work.

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M Asim Nehal 27 September 2016

Very true, .

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John Graham 27 September 2016

A very good nature poem.

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Jody Gladding

Jody Gladding

York, Pennsylvania
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