Lucinda’s Poetry – New and Old

Three Men In A Tub – Fractured Poem

Rub a dub dub

Three men in a tub

All of them shooting the bottom

The tub – it went down

The men – they did drown

And the sea – simply laughed

And said “Got ‘em!”

-Luci Eavenson

1979

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Too Much

A poem by Luci Sutherland

22 September 2012

 

“He has too much of the world’s goods…” the book read. 

Too much?

Have you seen the world?! She shrieked in her mind.

Have you seen the mountains?

The canyons? The oceans?

If you don’t own at least one ocean

How can you have “too much of the world’s goods”?

Did you get too much sunshine?

Too much rain?

Too many flower-scented breezes?

Have you heard too much birdsong and too many lazy bees buzzing?

Have you held too many sleeping babies

Or shaken with too much laughter?

Have you been too loved

Or too appreciated?

Have you heard too much music,

Or watched too many plays?

Played too much baseball,

Won too many awards?

There is so much beauty it can be found in a mud-puddle!

So much light we work to put up shades.

So much love it makes us squirm and blush.

The world has so much that we ignore –

That we forget to cherish –

That we deliberately devalue –

That we mock and sometimes hate.

Then we misunderstand when God blesses one man

In highly visible ways

And others have little that we would prize.

So we decide that we have the wisdom

To set God straight –

to tell Him how to order His world.

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Little Bo Peep – A Fractured Poem

Little Bo Peep

Had a college degree

She studied sleep

Disorders that keep

People who leap

To conclusions

From reap-

ing the rewards

Of their deep

But creep-

y work.

 

-Lucinda Sutherland, 2012

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