Welcome to the January Poem of the Month. Just a quick note to say Happy New Year! I hope that you had a wonderful holiday season, and wish you joy and happiness in the coming year.
Warmest regards,
Stewart
David Budbill
(1940 – )
Winter: Tonight: Sunset
Tonight at sunset walking on the snowy road,
my shoes crunching on the frozen gravel, first
through the woods, then out into the open fields
past a couple of trailers and some pickup trucks, I stop
and look at the sky. Suddenly: orange, red, pink, blue,
green, purple, yellow, gray, all at once and everywhere.
I pause in this moment at the beginning of my old age
and I say a prayer of gratitude for getting to this evening
a prayer for being here, today, now, alive
in this life, in this evening, under this sky.
