Mulling it over,
Mother wishes you many
More-to-come birthdays…
(for Carol, August 28, 2016)
"You must believe: A poem is a holy thing_a good poem that is." Theodore Roethke
(iron worker atop the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco)
Golden, magic bridge:
your artisans so wondrous
filling up the sky
A bridge is a powerful metaphor. Your poem could be about a real bridge or an imaginary or ideal bridge. It could be one you cross every day, or one that simply seems to stand for something larger – for the idea of connection or distance, for the idea of movement and travel and new horizons.