The toys love it when the grand-kids come to visit.
The last few weeks have felt unusually busy. When that happens, I find it hard to get in the poem-writing zone.
Last weekend was a case in point. It was Canadian Thanksgiving. We had the kids and grandkids here for a visit. It was such fun, but there was hardly a minute left over for reflection! Then, after they went home, I had to get ready to teach my weekly class (Wednesday a.m.).
This morning I told myself, This has to stop. And I wrote some senryu.
Sit down. Put feet up.
Relax. Breathe in your busy life.
Exhale a poem.
One of the things my 5-year-old grandson loves to do is watch spider videos. “I just love spiders. They’re my favorite insects!” We found a wonderful series called Monster Bug Wars. I figure one of the reasons he likes these videos so much is that the conflict is a lot like superhero conflict.
spider videos
transfixed by eight-legged titans
insect supermen
The five- and four-year-old are beginning to play with real Lego. We have a box of it from when our kids were little so I brought it up. “Grandma, can you make a helicopter?” (This after seeing one pictured in the instruction book.) So this grandma spent an entire morning, searching through Lego for tiny wee pieces to build a picture-perfect flying machine.
wrist-deep in Lego
hands sore from sharp-edged comb-through
helicopter search
I think if our old toys could talk, I would discover they live for the all-too-short weekends when the grand-kids visit.
Duplo, Lego, bus
dollhouse, xylophone, happy
when kids come to play
This post is submitted to Poetry Friday, hosted today by Cathy at Merely Day By Day.
Violet Nesdoly / poems 