Poem for Thursday November 6 2025 KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON Jill Stockinger

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Nov 1, 2025, 6:43:01 PM11/1/25
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My first poem for discussion Thursday, November 6, 2025.
   Jill

Jill Stockinger


            Keep On Keepin’ On

The humble 

metronome

of my heart

is the beat

to which

my music 

begins

and it keeps

the rhythm

of every

movement,

fast,

slow,

soft, 

loud, 

some parts 

sweet

and haunting.

 

When my

heart stops,

what happens

to the music?

 

I figure

it disappears

into earth and air.

 

So what.

While I can,

I keep on going.

This doesn't feel like

it’s enough to celebrate,

but deep down

in my bowels,

I give a shit!

So I keep on 

keepin’ on.

 

That metronome?

I picture a gnome

in this caged-in

metropolitan sprawl

of a city, Sacramento.

Hiding in a green pot

of red geraniums outside

my kitchen window. 

Smiling slyly. Sharing jokes

with cawing crows. Gobbling

mushrooms that pop their

heads up, after rain. 

Hobnobbing with worms and toads.

Bopping along to the sounds of my life

with everything he’s got.

 

 

 

 

 

Poem Jill Keep On Keepin' On (The humble: metronome).docx

Connie Johnstone

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Nov 1, 2025, 7:10:18 PM11/1/25
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