Simple, lovely, and simply lovely: to my dearest women friends, a relationship like no other.
In the Company of Women
by January Gill O’Neil
Make me laugh over coffee,
make it a double, make it frothy
so it seethes in our delight.
Make my cup overflow
with your small happiness.
I want to hoot and snort and cackle and chuckle.
Let your laughter fill me like a bell.
Let me listen to your ringing and singing
as Billie Holiday croons above our heads.
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(Read the rest of this short, wonderful poem here, at Poets.org.)
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Delightful Denise Krebs, at Dare to Care, has the Poetry Friday round-up this week.
Photo courtesy of Pixabay.
16 comments:
Karen, what a treasure. I love the title, "In the Company of Women"; it sounds so powerful. I love the idea that the frothy coffee allows for this: "so it seethes in our delight." Lovely. Thanks again, for your relationships poetry series.
Oh yes! Make that two, please!
Denise, I love the title too! The poem exudes the joy of down-to-the-bone laughter and of being deeply known by our best friends. ❤️
Kat, I'll pour you another cup right now. ;)
Can it be any nicer? "In The Company of Women, mutual understanding always. Don't you just love the way she brings the coffee through? I love that ending, too, Karen: "Let us take this joy to go." Indeed, we do! Thank you!
Oh, this is a lovely poem, Karen! Thank you for sharing it. Definitely arouses many emotions! I have been blessed by a great many wonderful friendships over the course of my life — I was always one of those girls and women who was always blessed with a coterie of good friends — until the brain tumor, and homeboundedness … the last of my in person, local women friends died six years ago. This season of ‘alone’ is a difficult one. I am not yet accustomed. I am grateful for past friendships, the sunny days to look back upon. I pray that perhaps, one day, I will have them again.
Great post, great poem. And I'll be meeting up with my old teaching gang soon! It would work. Thanks for sharing.
Such a love letter to our girlfriends! "Let us take our joy to go"!!
Appreciations for this joy filled moving poem, so full to the brim with exuberance, lovely!
Love this poem. I shared it with my book club (we meet at a coffee shop) last month. I have it in James Crews anthology, "How to Love the World." When I saw the link you shared, I texted the poem to our group tonight. "Let us take this joy to go." A delightful benediction for being in the company of women!
So happy to share this one with everyone!
That last line! 💕
I have a small group of women friends that I regularly have movie nights with - we've been each other's supports through births and deaths, marriages and divorces, love and heartbreak. There's nothing quite like these kinds of friendships.
Tabatha,yes!
And Jane, that is such a gift. 💝
I found another January poem that you wrote. I am sorry that I missed this one but glad that I found her words to be so enticing to read.
"Let the bitterness sink to the bottom of our lives. Let us take this joy to go." -Memorable lines.
Karen, I am not sure why my comment did not make it to your blog but let me try again. When I saw another January poem amongst others, I had to pause and read it. the ending is one to ponder along the way.
"Let the bitterness sink to the bottom of our lives.
Let us take this joy to go." What a special set of lines.
Carol, thanks for letting me know you were having trouble commenting. I have to moderate any comments on posts older than a couple of months, so it's all good now! I agree on those memorable lines!
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