Look and listen closely
for the messages that come from the spirit world.
They help us to regard life dearly
and teach us how to yield and get unfurled.
Blistering, the heat of summer
Dizzying the languid days
Gave way to autumn’s drummer
Blustering winds awake the blaze
Antsy the oak-tree lady-squirrel
Sprightly her pockets overload
Grasshopper now song-less, turns scurrilous
Then jumps leaps to glimpse at God
Why have the kids gone all naggy
Fall winds don’t fan to make shut-ins
Be on the lookout for Moulach, Maggy
Who’ll blow in with winds through chimneys
To shape-shift them into grasshoppers
Or send hoppers to bite off their noses
All Rights Reserved © Selma Martin 2021
Excerpt: Poem inspired on the day a pale, red-legged grasshopper, her life’s purpose completed, came to say ‘sayonara’ to me. And I saw beauty in the holy encounter: how beautiful the cycle accepted with reverence. May we learn more from these fragile creatures.
Photo: Folklore Image by Darelle from Pixabay
Thanks for reading, Happy last day of November. I wish you miracles.
P.S: I hope you pop in to read as often as time allows through December
as I post short poems I enjoy reading on the season. They will revolve around
Christmas as Christmas was the most magical event of all for me growing up.
Hint: If you missed it, here’s why this is so.
I’m a simple woman who dares to see the beauty in ordinary. I’d love to connect with you and like pen pals, I want something beautiful to blossom between us. Will you join me? Selma is my middle name. Its meaning—peaceful, complete, are euphoric affirmations I like to think of myself as having. They compliment the joy I feel when I write. I sincerely hope you decide to join me on my writing journey. I Wish You Miracles.
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Wow, Selma – you have quite an imagination!!
<3
David
Yeah, but Sometimes it’s hard to find the right words to give them the wind to propel them to fly on their own wings. Thanks for reading, David. I appreciate you. Be well, dear one. 🤗
What a concept and imagination Selma I loved reading it, and I am definitely staying tuned for all the Christmas poems for sure. Its my fav time of the year 😁💝
Thanks for saying that, my sweet. There will be Poetry
this Christmas 🎄 👼
So glad. Then I’ll be writing them FOR YOU.
It’s my fave season of all! I bless you. xo
You’re most welcome Selma 🤗
Aww.. how sweet of you, I’ll be eagerly waiting for it 😇💝💖💖
Thank you dearest I am blessed with you 😇🌸
I love these spirit whispers Selma 🙏
Glad the grasshopper spoke to you, and us through you, Selma.
Pax,
Dora
What a beautiful poem you have composed Selma, inspired by the grasshopper. Glad I got to read it ❤️
I love the way you’ve used the seasons in that first poem. It’s really added texture. 😁
You have compared two seasons so nicely. I liked the last sentence of the first poem. Mostly animals and insects speak in your poems. I like to read your poems and mostly when you add animals or insects, I try to understand what you mean to say.
Jane, I appreciate your support. It’s not easy to understand what the writer has in mind, but I hope you don’t get too discouraged to read. Let the poem speak to you anyway it wants to. I’m so happy you try to understand me. Be well. I wish you miracles.
I try to understand others because I’m habited to read students minds. Wish miracles for you too ❣️
This is a masterpiece! I couldn’t have possibly looked at a grasshopper and ruminated so vividly over its complicated purpose (ikigai). What’s going on in your mind is nothing short of a fantasy- a healthy, fresh and fertile imagination running wild and free. Such an exquisite poem! LOVED how you described the seasons so wonderfully and ingeniously in this poem. The squirrel with pockets full is such a cute, endearing image 🥰
So so loved this genius work! 💝
You’re too kind to me, Sam.
Every living thing has a purpose, you know that I know.
I adore your sincere enthusiasm. No wonder your mind is primed to do great things that you’ve yet to discover.
> “Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for Action, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence , Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!”
– Pablo.
> “Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Don’t change. xoxo
Wow; what a wonderful reply! 😍
Lovely poem Selma. And very happy to be here.
Narayan x
Thanks for the visit. xo