Keep on keepin' on (National Poetry Writing Month)
Not so happy that I blanked on yesterday's poem until after dinner. Today, more discipline!
Also, I have noted that the dangerous Nikki Blak has picked up the pace after falling off for nearly a week, and is pounding out some powerful new pieces. I may have a piece every day, but even I'll admit some are not that strong (while I am extraordinarily proud of the T'chaka and Bizarro pieces, and some of the other pieces, like the wife haikus, are not bad at all). Anyway, here's today ...
Newborns don't take days off.More tomorrow!
Infants never call in sick.
You won't find they left early
or drifted in after they were due to start.
They work long hours
sleeping, pooping, spitting up
reaching for things,
wiggling farther than you expect
interjecting coos and cries in moments of silence.
There were too many times
when I showed up for what I felt mattered
coasting through passage of mundane days
figuring that doing all right made it all right.
A sliver of tomorrow's an excellent reminder
of importance of Tim Duncan diligence.
Stepping up your game every day
because replays are on screen,
do-over is for kids or Sunday afternoons
adulthood is a one-way street.
Two sets of hands reach with every cry in the night.
Everybody works, nobody quits.
The life that everybody asks for,
worth every second
every day,
every single day.
"Non Stop"
by Hannibal Tabu
Playing (Music): "Lovesjoy" by Jason Luckett
NOTE: Since this blog is automatically imported into my Facebook page, I apologize if you comment on it and I don't respond, as I am taking a sabbatical from social networking for 2010. So me not responding is not personal, I just won't see the comments ... until 2011. Maybe. Also including this disclaimer on blogs, but you're welcome to go to the blog itself and speak your mind, as I may look there ...
Labels: blame society, napowrimo, parenting, poetry, writing
posted by Hannibal Tabu, The Operative at
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