Messages
A poem by Susan Shea

Messages

A tiny hummingbird stopped short
stayed in place like a helicopter
on a mission

looked right into my kitchen window
right at me forcing me to wonder

feel like I just received an untold
message from beyond this day

well I’ve got one for you to bring
back to that place

a day that comes to mind right now

dear dad you gave me words
you called me out to speak when
I was small and interrupted by
my uncle at a crowded table

you calmly stopped him in his tracks
you said my daughter has a thought

and right then you broke my
silence right open forever

I have been flying since

About the Author:

Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist who was raised in New York City and now lives in a forest in the mountains of Pennsylvania. She feels like she is coming alive again.  A poet since third grade, she now has time and many stored up rides to unpack. She has been published in Plainsongs, Pudding, Poetry Forum Newsletter, Oxalis, The Orange Review, The Accordion Flyer, The Bluebird Word, and The Agape Review.  Recently she has had poems accepted for three upcoming anthologies by The Moonstone Arts Center, The Weight of Motherhood, by Wingless Dreamer, Darkness Within Me,  and by Pure Slush Books, Lifespan Series: Achievement.

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