It’s Monday. First day of Spring Break. I’m making lists. A big part of me wants to do a whole lot of nothing. I battle with myself over being productive and being lazy. Something in between the two has always been difficult for me. Writing a list poem on a post makes it a bit less random, more thought out, less likely to be lost, than it would be on a post it.
What I need to do.
Organize
the closet, the library:
pack away the tried and true,
dust off boxed up treasures,
pull out the new,
set aside the unused,
the unneeded few.
Maintenance
Time set aside for
the necessary,
the things I can’t ignore:
handyman, doctor, dentist, vet
no excuses, no more.
Planning
It starts as a curse but develops
into dreaming:
lessons, books, discoveries.
Suddenly work is seeming
to be what I want to do:
writing and reading.
For more fun with list poems see Amy Ludwig VanDerwater’s The Poetry Farm and Ken Nesbitt’s Poetry4kids.
Glad I’m playing with poetry! Thank you fellow poet bloggers who are reaching for more in their lives and in their teaching. It’s nice to journey together. Check Leigh Anne, Michelle, Margaret, Kevin, Mary Lee, and Cathy’s blogs for more poetry inspiration.
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