Category: Sailboats

Sailing

8/15/2013

Since August is quite the sweltering month in Florida, I’ve been finding myself day-dreaming about our sailing days on the Parker River in Newbury, MA, many years ago now, but still fresh in my mind - the cool ocean breezes full in my face.

I love to write poetry using forms. This poem is a mask poem, where the poet takes on the persona (wears the mask) of an inanimate object or animal. Enjoy!

Moored
By B.J. Lee

Do not keep me
tied at this mooring.
My rope strains
while green water whispers
against my hull.
Let’s be off to the deep places
where I can feel
the wind at my back,
the sun on my white face,
and I’ll give you
the ride of your life.

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Blue Window

8/8/2013

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This is my first blog post. You may wonder, why Blue Window? I’ll tell you. I was once in a rock and roll band, believe it or not, and one of the songs our band sang was “Helpless” by Neil Young. I loved these lyrics, especially:

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky
Throwing shadows on our eyes….

Very nice! Thank you, Neil!

Several years later, I was reading, “A Writer’s Diary” by Virginia Woolf (edited by Leonard Woolf) and I kept finding haiku in her words. For example:

A very fine skyblue day--
my window completely filled
with blue for a wonder

Lovely! Thank you, Virginia!

This prompted me to write my own blue window haiku:

First day of spring--
my window
filled with blue

Then, on a trip to the South of France, I became obsessed with photographing windows with blue shutters.

And so, always being inspired by “blue” windows, I chose it for my blog title.

© B.J. Lee, 2011 all rights reserved
originally published in “Berry Blue Haiku,” March, 2011

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B. J. Lee is a children’s author and poet. Her picture book, There Was an Old Gator Who Swallowed a Moth, is launching with Pelican Publishing on February 15, 2019. She has poems in 25 poetry anthologies published by Little, Brown, Wordsong, BloomsburyUK, National Geographic, Otter-Barry Books, Pomelo Books, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. She has worked with anthologists Lee Bennett Hopkins, J. Patrick Lewis and Kenn Nesbitt. She has written poems for such children’s magazines as Spider, Highlights and The School Magazine. Follow her on Twitter @bjlee_writer.

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