It’s Poetry Friday! Romona host today from her blog Pleasures of the Page. Thank you for hosting, Romona, and we look forward to seeing what you have in store for us on Poetry Friday.
I’m thrilled to see such a competent woman V.P. candidate on the Democratic ticket. Kamala Harris is smart, articulate (remember the Kavanaugh hearings?) and not afraid to speak the truth. We need to get women’s voices into the American Oval Office, in the executive branch of government.
Congratulations, Kamala!
I was thinking when I wrote this poem below, how women know how to do things. I don’t want to make blanket statement about all women, but often women are versatile. They are problem solvers and have to be. My mother was a nurse, but most of her working life ran our family restaurant’s kitchen. She could do many things, one of them feeding a dining room full of restaurant customers. Every day.
It may seem a little dark, but thinking of my mom and other women talented in so many diverse ways, inspired this poem:
IN THE EVENT OF AN APOCALYPSE Mothers make things, can sew straight seams, nurse the sick, catch fish, grow potatoes roses and tomatoes in rocky soil. So, if someday civilization crumbles like an accordion, or a collapsed pile of pick up sticks, there might be others of similar mothers who carry the seeds of a new world. © Janice Scully 2020
Enjoy the end of August. Stay well.