Hi! This year (2022), I’ve decided to share a poem on my blog and podcast and read it aloud. It’s all a part of my quest to be brave and apparently the things that I’m scared about still include:
Thanks for being here with me and cheering me on and I hope that you can become braver this year, too!
The apple fell to the ground
joining the others; rotting
had already begun the way it does.
We all fall and crack.
On the wire a squirrel ran to the right,
green apple in her mouth, prized
obviously, bigger than her head. Another
fell before a second squirrel appeared, apple
in mouth, bounding on the wire to the left this time.
I know I’m not the squirrels. I know
I am not an apple (though I feel round lately),
but I gather things too big to hold and drop
so many, bringing them to the road
where they’ll be carried off
by others or maybe smooshed under
wheels of cars or just left to rot.
I know. I’m not the apple
rolling aimlessly
until I can’t move anymore.
I know.Hey, thanks for listening to Carrie Does Poems. These podcasts and more writing tips are at Carrie’s website, carriejonesbooks.blog. There’s also a donation button there. Even a dollar inspires a happy dance in Carrie, so thank you for your support. The music you hear is made available through the creative commons and it’s a bit of a shortened track from the fantastic Eric Van der Westen and the track is called “A Feather” and off the album The Crown Lobster Trilogy.
While Carrie only posts poems weekly here, she has them (in written form) almost every weekday over on Medium. You should check it out!
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eric-van-der-westen/the-crown-lobster-trilogy-selection