Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The news is looking up


All I did was walk
to the end of the driveway
to get the newspapers
(you find the news
by looking down) when
I chanced to glance
upward to see ribs
of purple blue punctuated
by white, and could read
another newspaper,
with all the news
that is fit.

This poem is submitted for The High Calling’s November photoplay and poetry, with the prompt of taking a photo and writing a poem by lying on your back and looking up. To see more poems submitted, visit the poetry wall at the T.S. Poetry Press Facebook page.

This poem is also submitted for dVerse Poets’ Open Link Night. To see more poems submitted, please visit dVerse Poets. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time today.

Photograph: Cloudy sky at sunrise, by the poet. Yes, the grass was cold and wet.
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23 comments:

  1. Brandee ShaferNovember 15, 2011 at 11:14 AM

    Ribs of purple blue: lovely!

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  2. S. EtoleNovember 15, 2011 at 12:54 PM

    It's definitely good news looking up!

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  3. MaureenNovember 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM

    Cute play on The New York TImes's tagline.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM

    that is fit
    to be tied
    like ribbons
    in the sky
    written
    and signed
    with the wind

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  5. AnonymousNovember 15, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    a beauty this is!!!

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  6. signed...bkmNovember 15, 2011 at 2:47 PM

    Beautiful Glynn...you can feel the calm in your words....bkm

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  7. AnonymousNovember 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM

    love those moments... sometimes we need to look for them in our busy day

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  8. Pat HattNovember 15, 2011 at 3:21 PM

    Just stopping and looking a little can show us such great moments, nice capture.

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  9. hedgewitchNovember 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM

    Really do look like ribs, those clouds--pictures are a great unlocker of words.

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  10. ScarletNovember 15, 2011 at 5:11 PM

    The headlines and bold titles can tell us all we need to know. thanks for sharing the pic as well (even though the grass was cold and wet ~)

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  11. AnonymousNovember 15, 2011 at 6:19 PM

    Wow, someone who still reads a stain-the-hands-with-ink paper!

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  12. Brian MillerNovember 15, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    you know, looking up is a great thing...the world is so much bigger than what is deemed news as well...

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  13. LindaNovember 15, 2011 at 6:52 PM

    I miss so much when I walk looking down at my feet!
    A lovely photo with an equally lovely poem Glynn.

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  14. Laurie KolpNovember 15, 2011 at 6:54 PM

    I love the comparison of looking down at the newspaper (which is so negative) and looking up to the heavens for the positive!

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  15. ayalaNovember 15, 2011 at 8:22 PM

    I love this, Glynn.

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  16. JeffNovember 15, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    Comes a perceptive observer encounters a random moment . . . Voila!

    It's a lovely paradox . . . something from above prodding while you were looking down.

    I like your poems.

    Cheers!

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  17. Doug SpurlingNovember 16, 2011 at 1:41 AM

    Yes Glynn, I like this. And where does our help come from but by looking up.

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  18. Shashidhar SharmaNovember 16, 2011 at 5:07 AM

    Hi Glynn

    A very interesting verse... out there the universe is what makes us all what we are ... just a speck of dirt, that no news paper can and will write about ...

    Shashi
    ॐ नमः शिवाय
    Om Namah Shivaya
    http://shadowdancingwithmind.blogspot.com/2011/11/whispers-where-you-will-go.html

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  19. UnknownNovember 16, 2011 at 7:14 AM

    all is right with your world ...sounds kind of cool to me ...thanks for sharing x

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  20. BeachannyNovember 17, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    It's as though you writ it large across the sky for all to see!

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  21. Sandra Heska KingNovember 18, 2011 at 7:09 PM

    The chest of God...good news, fit news indeed! Beautiful photo. Soft ribs. Love.

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  22. Cindee Snider ReNovember 19, 2011 at 9:13 PM

    Love your closing lines: "another newspaper,/with all the news/that is fit." It's enough, isn't it? God's take on the world. His word about His people, His world. It is indeed "all the news that is fit."

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  23. caryjoNovember 20, 2011 at 12:17 PM

    Lovely... on all sides.

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