Here I go again taking classes. This one is Part III of the series on modern women poets taught by Lorraine Mejia-Green through the Story Circle Network. We read poems by a variety of women and use their works and related assignments for inspiration. This week features Julia Alvarez and even though I have already read all her novels, etc. and a book of prose poetry, the selected poems are new to me. It seems I always take a different route from a lot of the others enrolled in the class. The following show cases draft two of my first assignment:
I keep coming to this part
where I’m happy
95 per cent of the time.
It’s my story
dictated by
ME.
“Variety is the Spice of Life.”
Cliche?
Yes, but true.
Four marriages
Lovers-I lost count
Activist in “love” with
Che and other South American
Revolutionaries.
Feminist for forty years
Up to maybe four careers.
Big city apartments
Ranches
Old houses by the bay
Bricks with arched windows
A tree lined street.
Can I settle?
For what, with whom, where?
Variety is the Spice of Life.