โ Scribed by Nye, Naomi Shihab
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the countryโs most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth full collection of poetry, we see with new eyes-a grandmotherโs scarf, an alarm clock, a man carrying his son on his shoulders.
Valentine for Ernest Mann
You canโt order a poem like you order a taco.
Walk up to the counter and say, "Iโll take two"
and expect it to handed back to you
on a shiny plate.
Still, I like you spirit.
Anyone who says, "Hereโs my address,
write me a poem," deserves something in reply.
So Iโll tell a secret instead:
poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes,
they are sleeping. They are the shadows
drifting across our ceilings the moment
before we wake up. What we have to do
is live in a way that lets us...
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