Wednesday Poems

Image:  Embraced,
acrylic on wood panel, 8” x 8”

On Valentine’s Day, CBC broadcast a wonderful love story from
New Brunswick.  My high school English teacher’s widow, at age
90 has found love again – and it all came about through a fabulous
seniors support program set up some time ago in the rural communities
that encompass her home at Murray Corner by the Northumberland Strait. 
Here’s the story:  well worth checking out!  I decided to honour them with
one of my love poems, this one, Making Love, from Belonging (Sono Nis).

Making Love

Making love with you I feel
my body wrap around the earth ─
a warm cocoon, content long after
making love with you.  I feel
at home with everyone all day,
cannot imagine indifference after
making love.  With you, I feel
my body wrap around the earth.


This one is another triolet – a wee eight-line poem with two refrains, each appearing three times. 
I often shake things up quite a bit in form poems, but here I kept the refrains intact, using changes
in punctuation to shift emphasis.  Enjoy!  (For more about this form, and more examples check it out
in In Fine Form: A Contemporary Look at Canadian Form Poetry and my Wednesday Poem #31.)