#800

Digitally altered drawing by S. Auberle

Today is an auspicious day--Post #800!  I started this blog in February, 2006, and to this day am still not sure why I keep it up.  The heading at the top, I guess, says it all--"for peace and the planet--connecting through the arts."  I still believe that if I can get someone to slow for a moment; to stop and smell the roses or the dandelions; notice a mountain or a river--that it helps to balance this fragile planet of ours.  And I LOVE seeing the map of my visitors' countries--thank you to all!  For the 800th post I just happen to have a poem entitled "800 Moons" which is approximately the number of full moons I've seen in my lifetime.   (never was all that good at math...)

800 MOONS

What I want to say is this:

remember me, please,

not for my mistakes—

though they loom large,

but if you could,

and if you would, remember

how I cherished poems

and how splendid I thought the small

things, like hanging laundry

in the fresh wind, the dance

of jeans and sheets on the line. 

Remember that I adored ice cream

with caramel and almonds,

and every one of the eight hundred

moons I’ve watched crossing the sky.

Remember me in your awe

of earth things—a procession

of cranes down a sunset river,

hillsides of wild, Scottish broom,

singing coyotes on spring nights--

not only the cheerful yipping of pups--


but that last, long, mournfull howl... 

~  mimi