October 2020
Robert K. Johnson
choirofday@cs.com
choirofday@cs.com
Bio Note: A now retired English Professor, I taught at Suffolk University here in Boston for many years. But I've
been writing poetry for even more years than that. I have several collections of poems published. I much enjoy writing poems about
writing poems. And writing love poems.
Song: A Turnaround Day
Month after month—
for how long?—
my days were barren
as an empty playground
till we met—and as fast
as a drooped leaf
flutters in a breeze—
the playground
filled up with children
playing in the sandbox—
on the seesaw—the swings—
everywhere.
©2020 Robert K. Johnson
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