Showing posts with label Hailstones and Halibut Bones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hailstones and Halibut Bones. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2012

Art Out My Window....

This photo was taken early this morning as the sun was coming up in my hometown.The red lamp is a reflection out my window. It is definitely cold, but peaceful.

When the boys are with me, we have poetry at the breakfast table. This morning I pulled out a collection of poems written by Mary O'Neill, "Hailstones and Halibut Bones".

The poem I chose was "What Is Blue". Here are just a few lines from the poem:

"Blue is twilight,
Shadows on snow,
Blue is feeling
Way down low.

Cold is blue:
Flame show from a welding torch
Is, too:
Hot, wild screaming, blistering Blue-
And on winter mornings
The dawns are blue...."


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