Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Fresh


Image borrowed from Panhala.

Fresh

To move
Cleanly.
Needing to be
Nowhere else.
Wanting nothing
From any store.
To lift something
You already had
And set it down in
A new place.
Awakened eye
Seeing freshly.
What does that do to
The old blood moving through
Its channels?

~ Naomi Shihab Nye ~

Posted over on Panhala

1 comment:

Snaggle Tooth said...

A great poem n feeling. Image amazing too.

So many first comments here... Sure is a crazy slow blog summer
I'm using my daughtert's fast computer to visit today- out of time n gotta wait another week...
I bbsit Weds nights