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A Quiet Life
by Baron Wormser
What a person desires in life
is a properly boiled egg.
This isn’t as easy as it seems.
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Mary Lee is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and has poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books), Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Books of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15 and 2016), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, and IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes.
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Franki and Mary Lee are both teachers, and have been for more than 20 years.
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Mary Lee is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and has poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books), Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Books of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15 and 2016), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, and IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes.
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Wow! "a cluck chained to the chore of her body" And that ending, coming to another "small" thing. Thank you, Mary Lee. I love this one!
ReplyDeleteThis poem is all kinds of brilliant isn't it?
ReplyDeletesalt-a miracle and the ace in the argument for God. Ha! I've taken this poem into my journal. I kind of love it.
There sure is a lot behind that title, "A Quiet Life…" Wormser shows us it's not as simple as it looks–and not really a quiet life either. Wishing you some quiet moments during your breakfast.
ReplyDeleteSo much under the surface of that hard boiled egg and this poem, Mary Lee. I have a particular fondness for chickens, "a creature usually mocked as a type
ReplyDeleteof fool". Believe me, they are nobodies' fool.
Mary Lee--I didn't see your link at the round-up, but I'm so glad I stopped by. What kind of name is Baron Wormser? What takes a mind and turns it toward a boiled egg? I love this poem is the way that I love Mister Rogers's visit to the construction paper factory.
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