Poetry Friday - Fill Them Up

         It's Poetry Friday, and Mary Lee Hahn is hosting HERE at A(nother) Year of Reading.  Until you read her poem, you haven't seen anything, yet! Thanks for hosting, Mary Lee!

        I hope your holiday times have been filled with loving memories! Happy New Year!

  

            My family and I had a lovely holiday, and now it's a new year, when I am most often excited about what that will bring. However, when hearing news of yesterday's horrific tragedy in New Orleans, I am saddened by this beginning, sorry most for those whose loved ones were killed, sorry for those injured, for those who are witnesses, sad for those who now must take care of all of it to investigate, to assess what went terribly wrong. You all know some of those will miss any sort of calmness these coming weeks, maybe all the year. I am sad for everyone who had to hear this news. 

            I tried to write about it and it felt somehow that I was pre-empting those who were there and most affected. So, I have a box full of words, went to it, wanting to write something to start 2025. It's one of those prompts that one rarely knows what will emerge, but I had fun with it, a kind of day-dreaming about the subject. I'm sure that "THEY" will hold dreams for good times in 2025, too! You'll see!

                                                     Pet Bowl Stock photos by Vecteezy

Bowls-Defined

 

Bowls full-fill our lives,

 

Emptied by the hungry:

             Soup-slurpers

             Cereal-crunchers

             Tea-tasters,

Used by the organizers:

            Key-keepers

            Coin-savers

            Shell-collectors

Savored by the cooks:

           Sugar-sweeteners

           Cake-mixers

           Salt-pinchers

Chomped by the pets:

          Dog-lappers

          Fish-swimmers

          Cat-munchers

Created by the artists

         Wheel-turners

         Clay-bakers

         Pine needle weavers

Variety is the spice of life

         and bowls.

           Linda Baie ©