I started my career in real estate so that I could make enough money to retire and write poems. And after thirty years, that’s still my goal! Along the way, I’ve discovered that selling real estate is just as creative as writing a poem. My professors at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop would have vehemently disagreed with that statement but every home, every buyer, every seller brings a different set of circumstances. What I love most is getting to know their ‘back story’. What brings them to that point in time, on any given day or year, when when they decide to buy or sell a home.
I still have a love for poetry. A good poem comes from the emotions of the heart. Every Wednesday I am going to share with you one of my poems or one of my favorites. I hope you will enjoy them.
Hearing the AK47 splinter
The frozen air like a red hot
Nightmare, you hit the cabin floor
At 2 a.m.
Don’t move, you whisper, do exactly as I say,
Crawling on all fours, the butt of war
Driving you in circles
Around our bed.
At sunrise, the birch trees weep
In defeat, their frozen branches
Curved in remorse
Like a dead soldier’s body.
Connie Yoshimura, Owner/Broker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alaska Realty.
Connie – all these years how did I miss your love of poetry? If you share a poem a week that’s 52 in a year…. And how long did you do that?! You have a book of poems by Connie. When will you publish or did I miss that too?
I have one or two boxes of poems I’ve been told should go into a book. But need to finish another book first. Or maybe the poetry could intersperse when I need a break or change of scene…
Look forward to your book of poems.