Hints

 

Another blank page

Words beg for release

Mere hints of poetry    

“There are no blank words. Just blank pages.”

                ~ Hadinet Tekie, poet and artist                            

At My Front Door

There is always a story

in every day 

routine and nondescript. 

Like the fellow 

who delivers my groceries ~

always a big smile, 

   a happy voice and

     a cheerful aura. 

Black hair wild and wiry.

His bulk carries my groceries

and his cheerfulness easily

~ this is a story at my door.

“We’re all stories, in the end.”

~ Steven Moffatt, 

Scottish TV writer and producer

Our Only Task

Drawing a blank on a screen 

with no texture, 

only the tactile nature 

of the keys feeding 

the black letters,

square and rigid,

on a screen with no texture.

But these black letters, 

square and rigid, 

write enchanting stories of 

prairies, mountains, lakes 

and oceans; trees and grasses,

peoples, animals, fish and fowl

asking us to imagine colour and texture.

“Books may well be the only true magic.”

~ Alice Hoffman,  Magic Lessons