A Woman's Place

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Two Chameleons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG08yRbzgds Today's work hasn't quite begun... I'm in reflective mode. The first person I read today was Chilitree: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Chilitree8026/618141 My comment was that his poem spoke to me... "struggling to know the right thing to do... for... Sign in to see full entry.

Simple Pleasures

I do love youtube... for when you feel like some pure indulgence... this is such a lovely song, and Joan Baez sings it so soulfully. I must be getting better; a year ago I listened to this sitting with an old friend who was keener on me than I was on him... it was friendship for me. I couldn't hear... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Butterflies

I need my head examined... I want to come and give you a hug. You need rest, and quiet; You don't need me needing you... So I won't, baby. I'm calm. I know there is still love there, Which might be 'enough' - I couldn't bear for there not to be. And if I feel it, you feel it... Don't make a mistake... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

I remember

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMkTLvQo1GM I remember you today, our walks in nature Above sparkling blue seas with tall white sails Amid the forest rocks and leafy floor, Cool in shade on a hot, hot day, escaping The mountains of papers for an hour, With coffee, from the corner store And only stale... Sign in to see full entry.

Kindness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJyJwbAa1i8 Kindness Kind of you to hold me, and to listen... And confusing. You have someone new. All I had to do was to hold out my arms And you were on your feet, encircling me, Rocking me gently the way you used to. I wasn't even crying.. I looked up at you And I... Sign in to see full entry.

Meadow

Let's write a happier scenario... Meadow Over the sunny meadow comes the frill-necked lizard, quizzical, comical, while we watch in silent plenitude, relaxing by the river bank, fingers entwined, saying nothing, arm linked with warm strong arm, my knees curled under me, my free hand lightly resting... Sign in to see full entry.

Eggcup

Before you came along, i had me, the woman i knew, wife and mother; this woman i don't know protected you and when i went away, it cost me you... Where loving you cost me only: material and financial comfort; my family's coherence; my daughter's respect; my son's late teens; my sense of who i am now... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Shaking

Is this my fear or is it yours... This quaking and quivering from nowhere, Nervous energy forcing itself Into consciousness... pervasive, Persuasive, mind-numbing strangeness. My mind was still and quiet When we could talk, and now we can't, And I have so much to say.. Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Solstice

Solstice Another night falls, darkening an Antipodean winter Beyond my window. I have no words, My brain saturated with theory, to try to relate, Incorporate legal philosophy into poetry, Plain prose melded with archaic diction, Historical metre, chivalric action, Women's difference, cultural... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

A Difficult Silence

Ordinarily, baby, I'd call you right away, The minute the registrar told me I'm fine. Ordinarily, I would hear relief in your voice, Feel its warmth and picture your smile. Over past months when I would call you From time to time, to keep in touch, You would be tired, and I'd hear a yawn.. I'd say I... Sign in to see full entry.

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