Welcome to WNIJ's Poetically Yours. Poetically Yours showcases poems by northern Illinois poets. Today's poem is by Rockford Writers' Guild member, Susan Goldberg.
Goldberg has been an attorney since 1990 and is Managing Attorney for UAW Legal Services in Belvidere, Illinois. She writes for the Illinois State Bar Association and for LexisNexis. Goldberg is married to Dan Goldberg and has three adult children. The best advice she’s ever received was to read aloud to her children. Today she reveals her favorite sound in her poem "Unheard."
I do not miss these sounds:
Screeching
Yelling
Scraping
Skidding
Harsh words.
You can keep them.
But I will give you these back, if you will just give me back one thing.
I will give up
The sound of breeze rustling the evergreens,
Waves lapping at the shore,
Music that floats in air.
I will even give you back
The sounds of
A door opening
A crowd cheering
The song of a robin
Just give me this back:
My children’s voices, as they jab their small fingers toward the summer night sky,
Their faces shining
As they count the stars
Out loud.
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