Poets tell us Yes, Yes, Yes

April 14, 2007 in Uncategorized
Melodrama National Poetry Month (what on earth shall we celebrate next month? National Johnny Depp Month?) continues with this poem sent yesterday by Lela Davidson. I fell in love with it immediately:

God Says Yes to Me

I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said yes
I asked her if it was okay to be short
and she said it sure is
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish
and she said honey
she calls me that sometimes
she said you can do just exactly
what you want to
Thanks God I said
And is it even okay if I dont paragraph
my letters
Sweetcakes God said
who knows where she picked that up
what I’m telling you is
Yes Yes Yes

-Kaylin Haught
from Steve Kowit’s The Palm of Your Hand. Copyright 1995

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About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

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