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The Friday Poem: I Like a Quiet Day
Each Friday Benicia Patch will publish an original poem with commentary by Patch Poetry Maestro Jeff Burkhart. If you would like to submit your own poem please send it to benicia@patch.com.
Today's poem is from Benicia's newest Poet Laureate and my friend Lois Requist and is titled "I Like a Quiet Day".
It deals with the art of enjoying your own company. It sounds so simple but I think people tend to think they're missing something if they're not in the company of others. Lois captures the moment in which we take pause in union with ourselves and rest, regroup and listen to our inner voice, inaudible without solitude.
I Like a Quiet Day by Lois Requist
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After the birthday
Cards, calls, cake, and candles
The bluster and poof of celebration
I like a quiet day
Sun sifting through shade
Spring green branches of willow
Drifting in a slow dance
A pillow at my back, I consider
The possibility of playing the piano
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After the holidays
Tinseled trees, turkey, Tabasco—for sound and heat, not for aptness
The bluster and poof of special days
I like a quiet day
Rain keeping me in, I say
Though it is more I want to be alone
Without anyone
To remind me how I should feel
What ought to be done next
After travel
Airports, arrangements, aperitifs on a veranda
The bluster and poof of other ways
I like a quiet day
Let the world churn on without me
Active participation requires too much
A trip to the gym, an opinion
on which wildlife should be saved
What about all these things?
After overnight guests
Laughing, lounging, learning about each other
The bluster and poof of it all
I like a quiet day
To take me back
The me that I am without
Expectations, schedules, dinner
To eat inappropriately
And laugh at a silly sitcom
After all
I need the celebration
Holidays, travel, and guests
To provide setting, context, place
The quiet day to know
Who and where I am
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