Jeanette and I got to go to Europe last month. To say that we thoroughly enjoyed it would be a significant understatement. I had hoped to write some poems during the trip, and after a slow start, that came to pass. I thought I would post some of them in one chunk for easy reading. I’ll start with the one that has a picture that goes with it, (canola) fields in Denmark that I found just absolutely captivating. The poem itself was birthed by noting the way different countries were handling Covid on public transportation and seeing where that took me.
This one I wrote when we were flying from Copenhagen to Brussels where our friend picked us up and took us to their home in Maastricht, Netherlands. I was thinking of other airplanes that flew over this very same part of the world about 80 years ago…
Pardon the language in the second line, but it seemed to fit.
The next two are from this wonderful book my wife gave me not too long after I started writing poetry. I have written fairly few poems in this book because there are always so many other poems bursting around in my mind to write, when I sit down I usually do those. So I decided I would take the book on our trip and do at least a couple … and so here they are. The titles are simply what the page says to write a poem about … see the picture.
This one (also from the Write the Poem book) is pretty personal, dealing with things that go with having a predominantly avoidant attachment vibe. (I dabble in ambivalent attachment as well — good times.)
OK, two more. This one is called Ache VII because I’ve written six previous poems called Ache. It’s a regular state of my soul, and I find writing poems to help therapize it. Ends up being a little conversation between Jesus and me.
This last one is also pretty personal. Wrote it sitting outside a restaurant in the beautiful city of Maastricht, Netherlands. It deals with my tendency (I imagine I’m not the only one) to get stuck in and even derailed by things of earthly beauty rather than seeing through them to the Source of all beauty.
If you made it this far, amazing — you should get a prize. Thank you for letting me share with you all!