The Blank Wall<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
With a blank wall<\/p>\n
I have nothing to erase<\/p>\n
No hurdles to jump over<\/p>\n
No hoops to jump through.<\/p>\n
Only possibilities.<\/p>\n
So I stare and ponder.<\/p>\n
Shadows play cat and mouse<\/p>\n
On the blank wall in my mind.<\/p>\n
Ladders go nowhere<\/p>\n
And paths go in circles.<\/p>\n
Words and phrases float like dust<\/p>\n
Fragments of sentences are only words.<\/p>\n
Seeds without packets long to be planted<\/p>\n
But my mind is rocky soil.<\/p>\n
I chase butterfly dreams with a fish net,<\/p>\n
And they escape.<\/p>\n
Then I see it\u2014a word like a single step leads to another.<\/p>\n
Before I can stop the flow,<\/p>\n
My poem is complete.<\/p>\n
Cindy Herndon<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ten Years Ago<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ten years ago I had no idea<\/p>\n
What a broken ankle felt like<\/p>\n
Or what limitations it would cause.<\/p>\n
I took driving and walking for granted.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A decade ago neither of my children were married.<\/p>\n
What gave me great joy was not a blip on a radar screen for them<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ten years ago I thought I would retire in just one year<\/p>\n
But I am still teaching\u2026and loving it.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I would not have conceived being in an art gallery<\/p>\n
Or published<\/p>\n
Or content to be at home creating.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ten years ago I was in the same house<\/p>\n
With the same husband<\/p>\n
Doing so many of the same things<\/p>\n
Thankful and content.<\/p>\n
Cindy Herndon<\/p>\n
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