Here’s a poem for the fifth day of the 2013 Poem a Day Challenge on Rober Brewer’s blog. My contribution is below the link.
2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 5 | Write a Poem a Day Until May | WritersDigest.com.
Plus
They all add up,
in the end,
remnants of
all the different
people we have
been, the toddling
baby, tasting
everything that falls
in reach, the school
child hearing
the music of varied
voices, the teen
watching for every
slight, the young
adult feeling the frustrations
of a striving world,
the parent, overwhelmed
by the surprising perfume
of a child’s sun-dusted arm,
the aging friend, walking
by a river in the afternoon,
a sum from similar
numbers, so like, yet
unlike any other,
when added up.
One Way to Wonder 