meditation – Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry

Winter Conversation

February 1, 2012 ROMPoetry

Dandelion in winter
Has lost its head
It did not roll down a hill
Nor drown in an ocean
Though the ocean may have
Longed for it
Sumac seeds and wildflower,
Pine cone and pine needle,
All watched
And said nothing.

–Shaun Perkins

My junior class collected things on the ground outside the other day and made poems out of them.

Musings, Poems

Ending with “Life”

January 10, 2012 ROMPoetry

Yesterday morning, I realized a lot of poems I like end with the word “life.” I even have one I wrote years ago that ends, “and hurriedly—so I wouldn’t be caught—I began to make my life.” There is an innate appeal to a poem that ends with “life.”