"Simple" Lady Poetry
Welcome to my poetry journey. It began many years ago
during a confusing, challenging, and heavy time. Nothing around me seemed to make sense. As I journaled my various tumbled and tangled thoughts, ideas, and feelings they took the shape of what I now know to be a simple small couplet poem. Since that day, I’ve found light, ease, and sometimes even some sense comes to me when I sit with my journal, whether that’s during a sad, tough, delightful, or fun moment and often poetry results.
Just Dance
Just dance with the waves of change
powerful, gentle, crashing, rolling rhythm.
Our lives and the oceans musical rearrange
Through the years, a few great friends have entered my life
and encouraged me to share my poems more regularly and
widely. Thus, this PLOG now took shape here. I call it "Simple" Lady Poetry because, let’s be honest, life and being human are not simple. Yet, simplicity can help us find our way through the confusion. Lady is the name my treasured grandkids call me, and I've long thought the song "Simple Man" by Lynyrd
Skynyrd contains some of the best life advice in it, even for a "Simple Lady” like me.
Read a few of my
poems out-loud for the first time recently as a way to introduce myself and tell some of my "story" at a workshop I did in my business life for a conference that was about leading through change. Workshop theme and title was JUST DANCE,,,
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If even one of my "simple" poems here helps you make sense
of anything senseless that’s on your heart and mind, then I'm
glad I decided to follow the nudges of those wonderful
humans who encouraged me to share them. And I know we will all continue to experience multitudes as humans on this earth. I expect I'll keep processing much of it in my journal through the rhythm and rhyme of poetry, and I hope you’ll keep coming back here to check in and see what “simplicity” through words I found in the midst of it all.
Take a...
Take a stand
Land
Take a leap
Weep
Take a turn
Learn
Take a chance
Dance
Make a friend
Mend
Photo by Mary Goff
This "plog" holds "simple" poems about things simple and not so simple — they 're mostly written by hand first and often flow out wrapped in rhythm. They may sound like someone you know, or no one at all. Each piece is simply a story that found its way into words, not a portrayal of any specific person or situation..
