The Best Time To Write A Poem Poem by Dorothy (Alves) Holmes

Any time is the best time...
Sunrise or
Sunset,
Watch a baby sleep,
In a crib
or
In some loved ones arms.
See a parade or a balloon or
When the full moon invites
A melody,
And
When thunder roars
Or
Lightening flashes
Day time, night time,
During long hospital visits
or when
Loves comes to stay or
Leave
Unannounced and you must write
Through tears...and
Time is not a factor.
Writing fills the emptiness when
Your world has crumbled because
A love one dies
Time not a factor, when they are here that morning
And gone before twilight and the night is long and lonely.
I write
Every moment I breathe
Because I am told it is God's Gift
To me and surely it must be as there is
A poem twirling around inside me
Every moment of the day,
As I look up at the sky
Watch a bird fly
Watch people moving about
See trees and flowers and fields,
Hills grassy green...
Waterfalls and the paintings snow creates..
No better time to write than spring,
All through the day, autumn and fall's hues
Writing in jazz clubs listening and writing
Into the early morning.
I once knew each poem I wrote
By heart because my memory
Was keenly divine...said a friend
Of mine...now being older,
I can't remember much except
I am a poet who loves to sing,
Since I came into the world, my mother said!
I wrote my very first poem on a dare at age 16,
January 21,1948, the words flowed so easy and free.
Right a way we knew, a poet I would be.


Dorothy Alves Holmes
7: PM
August 7,2015