Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Clean Up

I spend a portion of my day cleaning up
the house, the kitchen when I cook,
the bookshelves or my closets,
my junk drawers, dresser drawers,
the fridge, the stove, the cabinet tops,
the floors, the porch, the pool, and me,
the garbage can, the sink and the baths.
I spend my days cleaning up.

I spend so much time cleaning out
the to-do file on my desk -
a poem a day at Robert’s bidding,
the poetry I need for the city archives,
the homework or critiquing for a poetry class,
work on several projects undone, paintings,
my knitting, my blogs, my writing group online,
my clubs,e-mail, family, Facebook, and friends.
There's birthdays, holidays, celebrations, too,
cards to send and thank you notes,
snail mail to write and gifts to wrap,
I spend so much time in my in-basket
it’s so hard to strike a balance in life.
April 7, 2009

4 comments:

Victoria said...

Ditto - So hard to strike a balance. Thank you for all your poems.

Michele said...

I can relate! How do we get it all done? If I'm honest, most times I just don't get it all done...

Mary said...

You definitely captured the idea of CLEANING out the 'in baskets' of a person's life. What I want to know was how did we get such complex in baskets?

Glenda said...

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. You say it best for all of us.