VISION
Today there have been lovely things
I never saw before;
sunlight through a jar of marmalade;
a blue gate;
a rainbow
in soapsuds on dishwater;
candlelight on butter;
the crinkled smile of a little girl
who had new shoes with tassels;
a chickadee on a thorn-apple;
empurpled mud under a willow,
where white geese slept;
white ruffled curtains sifting moonlight
on the scrubbed kitchen floor;
the under-side of a white-oak leaf;
ruts in the road at sunset;
an egg yolk in a blue bowl.
My love kissed my eyes last night.
-May Thielgaard Watts
Gladsome Lights 
A beautiful poem!
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This is lovely, Gretchen, and I love the painting, too.
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Such lovely thoughts in this “simple” poem, reminding me of the joy to be had in little things. There is a school in our town named Watts Elementary, after May Watts. I don’t know much of her work, though, and I’m glad to read this post.
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So many things I miss when I don’t pay attention.
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This is lovely!!
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