Poetry Moment

While, I'm still a bit depressed over the closing of Superior Donuts, I thought I'd turn to more positive matters.  My daughter, who loves to write, got Runner-up in a county-wide poetry contest for her age group.  She entered on a whim and she'll get $25: getting paid for writing, not bad.   So, in honor of her great achievement, I am sharing 2 of the poems with you. The 3rd poem, which I posted on my blog a while ago, was about Halloween.  I'm not saying it's not good, I just really like these two poems:

Journey

When lead touches paper

One hand gains passage

To an impossible form of the impossible.

The village the hand must cross

Consists of long empty roads

Slowly filling with people.

But when the lead breaks

The strong connection is lost

Until the thoughts reinvent themselves

And the journey resumes.

I Was a Giant

I was a giant, once.

I moved the people in their houses.

I arranged cities.

I created scenes and played them out.

But I wish I had enjoyed it

And cherished it

Because I wasn't going to stay

Young

Forever.