This new YouTube recording has ten of the poems from my book, Strange Words.
Strange Words: Poems and Prayers
A Little Adventure—poem
Here is a new video of two of my poems: A Little Adventure (written a few months before my mother’s passing) and Half-Way There (written a few days after my mother’s passing).
A Little Adventure
Why are you worried?
It’s just a little adventure.
There’s plenty more to come.
It won’t be long
and we’ll see you again.
We’re never far apart.
You’ll barely be gone
and, once more, we will
be uniting to restart.
Great Blue—poem
Who can stand it—
this uncertain bond?
Shall it be
swallowed by
the great blue mouth of sea?
The Great Death—poem
I stood at the back of the funeral room.
Very still.
Black dress. Black coat.
It’s cold.
Purposely alone.
Ears closed.
Not wanting to hear
the tirade of sweet lies.
Donna Goddard 