After reading DOG SHOW by Billy Collins last week, I found myself writing under his influence!
Jan has this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup at Bookseedstudio.
Poetry Friday: Thumbs
After reading DOG SHOW by Billy Collins last week, I found myself writing under his influence!
Jan has this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup at Bookseedstudio.
A(nother) Year of Reading 
I love the watercolor and the Billy Collins influence. You have a master poem today, and I can see the curled-upness of the cat and the soothing tea.
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Lovely to rise with mimosa bloom coloring, birds, and independence of our wonderful thumbs 👍 thanks!☺️
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A mimosa bloom sunrise – how perfect. Love how Billy Collins helps us take notice of such simple pleasures in the everyday routine of life. Nicely done (watercolor, too!)
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“sunrise the color of mimosa blooms” is my favorite line because I love mimosa blooms. Such a fascinating tree. And as a child I climbed my grandfather’s mimosa tree and made soup with the seed pods. None of that was in your poem, but I love how poetry can touch each reader a little differently.
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I can hear Billy Collins’ cadence in your poem– how fun! Boy am I glad we don’t have to depend on cats for our cups of tea!
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It feels as if Billy Collins and you could have a fun conversation, Mary Lee, about the foibles of having pets! I do love that you made us readers happy by the lovely sunrise description! I can’t see a sunrise anymore (unless I rise in the dark and walk a block or two) as I used to at my old home, and miss it. Ah “the color of mimosa blooms”. And, I, too, am glad for the “opposable thumbs”! : )
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Well, I just love this so much! What fabulous details.
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You’re writing AND playing with paint! Yay!
I’m looking forward to reading Collins’ DOG SHOW too.
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Cats! Such characters. I love this poem. I’m glad for my thumbs, too.
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Mary Lee, sunrise with the color of mimosa blooms is such a vivid image. I am a Billy Collins’ fan ever since a few decades ago, he presented at the NYSEC Conference. Your poem is delightful and full of nature in verse.
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