a crossword puzzle
side by side my parents
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Jean LeBlanc
Jean LeBlanc is a poet, artist, and teacher in Newton, New Jersey. She teaches writing and literature at Sussex County Community College. Her collections of short-form poetry include The Opposite of Bird (Cyberwit, 2015) and The Haiku Aesthetic: Short Form Poetry as a Study in Craft (Cyberwit, 2013).
In her blog, www.jeanleblancpoetry.blogspot.com, she contemplates the role of art and poetry in our weird, mixed-up world.
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We can envision the loving companionship and repartee that develops when two people share a favorite pastime; the child (however young or old) and onlooker become a part of the moment as well. The intimacy is sweetly and simply expressed.
years after
their passings
here and there
another piece
falls into place
sudoku puzzle
three times fist to my stomach
this baby can't count
Thank you. Lovely. I live in a retirement community and there's one couple that's been married for longer than I've been alive. I get this feeling when in their presence.
one down
Jean
I couldn't help thinking of this when I read your lovely verse.
Thank you all for these beautiful comments.
Very nice. A nice image, with depth of meaning. Works on many levels.
Beautiful!!
Heartwarming . . . with great assonance and consonance.
Such simplicity of words, yet it takes the reader so much deeper. What a nice feeling is evoked by this image. I find myself wondering – or imagining – what their years together have been.
lovely these feelings of yours need no words
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