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I feel Like Hugging A Tree

by Jennifer Ragan

I feel like hugging a tree
The big pine
At the edge of my yard
Next to the road
But I thought the neighbors might see
Or a car might drive by
And they’d think I’d lost it.

I feel like having a beer
But it’s ten o’clock in the morning
On a Tuesday
So I made another pot of coffee instead

Maybe it’s the unusual warm weather
For January’s usual cold bite
I think I like global warming
Maybe it’s not such a bad thing

I have a strange feeling
Rumbling about
In my gut
I can’t put my finger on it
But I feel it stirring
Gaining momentum

I feel like
Something is going to happen
Not necessarily bad
Just something
I wish I was psychic
So I could talk to the dead
And know the answers

01/07/2008

Author's Note: Trying something different

Posted on 01/08/2008
Copyright © 2025 Jennifer Ragan

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by George Hoerner on 01/08/08 at 01:53 AM

If anyone knows I'm sure it is the dead. If they don't we might just as well have fun.

Posted by Charlie Morgan on 09/19/08 at 01:36 PM

...jennifer, i missed this jewel in the jan. posting, i am so glad to get to read it now...this is exemplary or so many strong [current] poets, Tony Hoagland, Billy Collins, Edward Guest,...you wrapped me into the [mostly normal PSYCHOSIS] thoughts of some of us, and so it goes. minute to minute to minute...voila!

Posted by Charlie Morgan on 09/19/08 at 02:12 PM

martin buber of the turn of the century[early existentialist] through the mid-60s was of the similar mind as this pome stirs...martin was talking about ICH DU[i/thou relationship and ICH-ES[an i/it relationship. "One key Ich-Du relationship Buber identified was that which can exist between a human being and God. Buber argued that this is the only way in which it is possible to interact with God, and that an Ich-Du relationship with anything or anyone connects in some way with the eternal relation to God."

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