NaPoWriMo Day 18: A little life

Hi, I’m doing NaPoWriMo on napowrimo.net. The challenge is to write a poem a day in April. 

For Day 18, the prompt was to write about life’s small pleasures.

This is the prompt for the April 18 poem:

Our optional prompt for the day honours the idea of Saturday (the Saturdays of the soul, perhaps?) by challenging you to write an ode to life’s small pleasures. Perhaps it’s the first sip of your morning coffee. Or finding some money in the pockets of an old jacket. Discovering a bird’s nest in a lilac bush, or just looking up at the sky and watching the clouds go by.

A little life

Light tiptoes in,

Shy morning greets me

With a hello,

Curled under blankets

With a dog-eared

Book.

This is the quiet time,

The great emptying

Of air, water, earth

And tepid fire

Before the street

Awakens.

Even the birds

Haven’t cottoned on

Yet.

My cup of tea waits

Steaming.

I hug it to my chest,

And in these idle

Moments all is right

In my world.

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, April 18, 2020