Take One Step Back

awww! you made my night, T.!
Trixxie wrote:

re-LOVING!

re-LOVING!

Thanks Kim. You too Trixie! Glad you enjoyed.
I believe she said she'd never been that into poetry until a college instructor got students out researching and collecting poetry. Class members were each expected to bring in several interesting and/or likeable poems to add to their personal poetry journals. I'll have to ask her to tell me the story again sometime.
-d

Kim100 wrote:

what a great poem, Dawn! thank you for sharing it. I used to read tons of poetry....wonder why I stopped?

Trixxie wrote:

This is smashing! Love! :)

what a great poem, Dawn! thank you for sharing it. I used to read tons of poetry....wonder why I stopped?
dhzuehlke wrote:

Reminds me of, "One Step Backward Taken", one of my mother's favorite Carl Sandburg poems. I copied it out below in case you haven't memorized it like she has... ;)
-dawn

Not only sands and gravels
Were once more on their travels,
But gulping muddy gallons
Great boulders off their balance
Bumped heads together dully
And started down the gully.
Whole capes caked off in slices.
I felt my standpoint shaken
In the universal crisis.
But with one step backward taken
I saved myself from going.
A world torn loose went by me.
Then the rain stopped and the blowing,
And the sun came out to dry me.

Reminds me of, "One Step Backward Taken", one of my mother's favorite Carl Sandburg poems. I copied it out below in case you haven't memorized it like she has... ;)
-dawn

Not only sands and gravels
Were once more on their travels,
But gulping muddy gallons
Great boulders off their balance
Bumped heads together dully
And started down the gully.
Whole capes caked off in slices.
I felt my standpoint shaken
In the universal crisis.
But with one step backward taken
I saved myself from going.
A world torn loose went by me.
Then the rain stopped and the blowing,
And the sun came out to dry me.

This is smashing! Love! :)