Sunday, August 28, 2022

Free Gifts...

 It's the time of year when I drive around and thrill over sunflower gardens along the way. I have not yet stopped and gifted anyone with a booklet of my sunflower poems, but while working on today's blog post I printed out a booklet, stapled it together, and have it ready to lay on somebody's doorstep...


Maude's Sunflower Garden
from a photo taken a few years ago


FREE GIFTS

 

For weeks now

I’ve been driving by a house

on Totowa Road

that holds no distinction

except for a vibrant flower garden

in front and around the side

 

What catches my glance

and causes me to smile

are perhaps thirty or forty

gigantic golden sunflowers

shouting for attention

 

Today I printed

eight sunflower poems

folded them neatly

and placed them in an envelope

decorated with a scribbled sketch

of a solitary sunflower

and a note saying

I love them, too!

and left the envelope

by the front door

of the house, I often pass

 

Sometimes I leave bereavement poems

on a table at a neighborhood mausoleum

or give copies of my chapbook

The Widow’s Song

to newly widowed friends

Sometimes I mail poems

about butterflies

to people who love them

and regularly post poems on my blog

about God’s love and His mercy

with the hope

of reaching those

who need encouragement

 

When the one who gifted me

with a garden full of sunbursts

opens the door today

I hope my simple poems

generate a smile

 

Maude Carolan Pych


Maude Carolan Pych

Here I am with my book of poetry

about the Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus.

It's titled, "Behold the Lamb...poetically!"

and is available online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

www.maudecarolanpych.net




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