Hello and it’s time for a poem a week! I am so glad you are here, and so grateful for the things that make this life better. Things like poetry, reading, writing, family and friends. Things like learning and growing. Things like choosing kindness and respect in every single aspect of life.
This week my little book of poems, Love in the Time of Climate Change, arrived. She is for sale on Amazon at the moment. I prefer paperback, but e-books are a thing too. But they hurt my eyes! How about you? I spend a lot of time reading online though, this is for sure. And writing online. But when it comes to reading something for enjoyment and to really get into it, I really enjoy having that hard copy book right there, by my bed or in my case, anywhere I go, it travels from bed to couch to car while I wait to pick up my daughter, to bed again.
Here’s how to find my book of poems about love, family, relationships, and climate change - something that impacts us all and brings on feelings of grief, anxiety, anger, wonder, pain, and a feeling of bracing for whatever it is that is coming - as well as, yes, some feelings of hope and trust and optimism when it comes to what we might still do, what we might still save, what we might still provide for each other and this planet. So, thank you for your support, for ordering the book if you do, for sharing it if you do, for being here for me in these ways that you are.
This week’s poem is a climate change poem as well. It tends to happen when I think of nature, birds, animals, living, the future. It’s called Field Guide To Birds. Click the link to view it on Medium, or enjoy it here in your in-box. Thank you all so very much.
Field Guide To Birds
It should not read like
a diary of loss
a mystery of disappearance
a Where’s Waldo of what’s left
and yet flipping through this field guide to birds
with its beauty, simplicity, organization, optimism
I can’t help but feel the grief and ask the question
what will we do when this who’s who of birds is
a slimmer and slimmer volume
every year -
Where is this guide guiding us to?
Will there be graves, memorials, monuments?
Will there be obituaries, or
will there be
as Rachel once said, simply
Silence?
Sincerely,