Friday, August 10, 2012
Random Poetry and Cake
Open up a book of poetry and see what you find. Here's mine:
The Cure
Lying around all day
with some strange new deep blue
weekend funk, I'm not really asleep
when my sister calls
to say she's just hung up
from talking with Aunt Bertha
who is 89 and ill but managing
to take care of Uncle Frank
who is completely bedridden.
Aunt Bert says
it's snowing there in Arkansas,
on Catfish Lane, and she hasn't been
able to walk out to their mailbox.
She's been suffering
from a bad case of the mulleygrubs.
The cure for the mulleygrubs,
she tells my sister,
is to get up and bake a cake.
If that doesn't do it, put on a red dress.
Ginger Andrews, via Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times
Do it yourself and tell me what you find.
Will red shoes do?
ReplyDeleteThis is a good idea. I'm doing it tomorrow.
ReplyDelete(Your poetry challenge, I mean...not putting on a red dress! Though if I had one lying around I could do that too.)
What a fab poem! Unknown to me until now!
ReplyDeleteI like Aunt Bert's prescription.
ReplyDeleteI love this assignment! From Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times:
ReplyDeleteThe Cry by R.S. Thomas
Don’t think it was all hate
That grew there; love grew there, too,
Climbing by small tendrils where
The warmth fell from the eyes’ blue
Flame. Don’t even think the dirt
And the brute ugliness reigned
Unchallenged. Among the fields
Sometimes the spirit, enchained
So long by the gross flesh, raised
Suddenly there its wild note of praise.