Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Podcast #Poetry – Birthdays by Sally Cronin

Some more poetry from some of my collections.

We have celebrated quite a few birthdays in our family in the last couple of months and here is a garland Cinquain about these special days.

Sally Cronin – Smorgasbord Blog Magazine · Smorgasbord Poetry – Birthdays by Sally Cronin

 

Birthdays

birthdays
a reminder
of the passing of years
celebrated with lit candles
and cake.

wrinkles
are etched on skin
laughter lines they tell you
signs of character and a life
well lived

people
in the present
and in our memories
are thought of with love as this day
passes

how fast
they come around
the older that we get
a caution to make the most of
each day.

tempting
as it might be
to disregard this date
it stands as a testament to
our lives

birthdays
are etched on skin
and in our memories
a caution to make the most of
our lives.

©Sally Cronin 2023

 

One of the recent  reviews for the collection.

Janice Spina – January 20th 2022 – Interview and Review Sally Cronin

Life is Like a Mosaic is a lovely collection of poetry that lifts the heart and the spirit. The author has the innate ability to create beautiful poems, thoughts, rhymes with words as if she has a magic wand.

She weaves ordinary words and creates the extraordinary before our eyes. There are fifty poems to enjoy covering feelings, experiences, hope, love, heartache, joy, friendship among others. She recalls her childhood memories, holidays, friends and other thoughts in flowing and creative rhyming poetry that takes one away to his/her own childhood nostalgically.

The colorful cover tells a tale all its own of life that can be so fractured yet somehow comes together in a beautiful way. The poems she creates give us hope in a troubled world of what is possible if we think positively. As she says in the poem, ‘Hope, Hope still springs eternal’.

I enjoyed all these wonderful poems but especially enjoyed ‘The Sunflower – One, and Sunflower – Two.’ In these two poems Sally expresses her thoughts – ‘Witness the sunflower as she swivels to stare and worship the gold god. Symbol of health and life the sunflower brightens every field that she graces.’

As I read all these poems I fell uplifted and free, all my troubles melted away. It was a beautiful feeling as I traveled along her words to float and flitter, my heart beating rhythmically with her lilting words. I highly recommend this beautiful collection. Thank you, Sally Cronin!

Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and their reviews you can find them on my books page My books and reviews 2023