Poetry and Quilts

Last Tuesday was our yearly spring Poetry Luncheon at The Center.  Amid all these chilly and stormy days we have been having, that Tuesday was a beautiful day.  It always works out that way, it seems.  Lucky us.  The beautiful posters of Ruth McGinnis, our retired poetry teacher, adorned The Great Hall.  They are from her 100th birthday party in April. 

We had our quilting projects on display from our Quilting Class for everyone to see.

We've done many fun things in Denise's class.

It was a yummy lunch and then on to the Chapel Garden for the poetry reading.  Haiku is one of my favorite forms of poetry, so I will give you a sample below.  A haiku is a poetic form that conveys a feeling through imagery, rather than through abstract ideas or opinions.  It is three lines of five, seven, five syllables.  It is a way of letting God know that we are paying attention.

                                                           The winter trees wait
                                                    Clouds move aside for the sun
                                                             A blossom's debut

There's spring in the air

A surprise of warm breezes

now sweep through my hair

This is Dawn and Diana.  Diana is my cousin and Dawn is her daughter and I thought they would enjoy the afternoon here.

                                                            Mystical morning
                                                       Curtain of fog hangs over
                                                           a whisper of trees

After the poetry reading, tea was served...along with chocolate-covered strawberries!

The warm wooly sheep grazed

among fluffy white seed heads

while the field napped

*

Flying north, the bird

finds dampness and mud

pecks without a word

*

Amid the night sky

through silhouetted branches

playful starlight winks