Showing posts with label city. Show all posts
Showing posts with label city. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

I Live in a City



For the next half of National Poetry Month 2017, 
Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response.


Through her music, Malvina addressed issues of diversity and collaboration, as well as economic and labor issues. 




Riddle Poem

What is bigger than all its parts,
full to the brim of stops and starts,
more colorful than the boldest rainbow,
only silent when buried in snow,
less significant than it wants you to believe,
a problem to solve, a tragedy to grieve?

("...a city made by human hands")


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2017



Monday, April 02, 2012

BOXED IN -- a goose poem, a city nature poem



BOXED IN

They've made their home
in a commercial zone.

He struts down the walk
where no predators stalk:

the vigilant gander
threatening human bystanders,

while goose wishes she
had more privacy.


© Mary Lee Hahn, 2012




Poem #2, National Poetry Month 2012

Cathy, at Merely Day By Day, is joining me in a poem a day this month. Other daily poem writers include Amy at The Poem Farm, Linda at TeacherDance, Donna at Mainely Write, Laura at Writing the World for Kids (daily haiku), Liz at Liz in Ink (daily haiku)...and YOU?