POEMS/ To Do
To Do
1. Time to cast my crutch aside.
2. Let go the web that tangles me.
3. Turn my whisper to a roar.
4. Step off my iceberg, start to melt.
5. Become light, not shadow.
6. Paddle against the current.
7. Glisten like an Indigo Bunting on a hemlock branch.
8. Roar like the winds of hurricane.
9. Break through brick walls that shut me out.
10. Sprout where I am not wanted—
be the buckthorn in the meadow.
This poem will appear in Phyllis's forthcoming book Finding Ithaca.
1. Time to cast my crutch aside.
2. Let go the web that tangles me.
3. Turn my whisper to a roar.
4. Step off my iceberg, start to melt.
5. Become light, not shadow.
6. Paddle against the current.
7. Glisten like an Indigo Bunting on a hemlock branch.
8. Roar like the winds of hurricane.
9. Break through brick walls that shut me out.
10. Sprout where I am not wanted—
be the buckthorn in the meadow.
This poem will appear in Phyllis's forthcoming book Finding Ithaca.