A Poem is Always a Holiday
HELLO READERS OF POEMS. Some of you asked me to repost this poem, which appeared yesterday in Women Around Town. Here it is. It's an everybody holiday poem.
1 Words are how we celebrate. When we can we make poems with our lives. And then we eat. 2 We imagine we interpret we tell a story we’ve heard before on occasion we make that story new. 3 Sometimes, for the sake of kindness and hope, we reinvent our characters. God can become a female giraffe. 4 We often seek forgiveness. Whether or not we turn the other cheek depends on the cheek and what it means to turn. 5 The stories usually have heroines and heroes. What they look like doesn’t matter. I like my heroines short and round. 6 We know that people prefer winners and losers. ?Maccabees rising against Greeks. In good stories the underdog wins. We are all underdogs. These stories make us happy. 7 I don’t like winners and losers. When my son was little I bought a Unitarianish game snails went around in circles. No winners and losers. I was one snail. He was another. He always tried to win. 8 Our holidays might take place in a town on the coast of Maine downtown Havana anywhere in Tanzania Persia, India. We will eat and celebrate. Maybe we’ll sing. Maybe we’ll write a poem. - See more at: http://www.womanaroundtown.com/sections/reading-around/poets-corner-a-poem-is-always-a-holiday-esther-cohen#sthash.pgwkc2g0.dpuf