Poetry Friday

I've never participated in Poetry Friday before -- aside from the time I posted a cinquain about picking blueberries in my backyard on the Miss Rumphius' Effect blog. But I believe there's no time like the present to begin.

Those of you who know me will find this nearly impossible to believe, but I've been grumpy and out of sorts lately. When either of the kids was in this kind of mood when they were little, I called them "Crankleberry Johnson," which is what Neil called me last night.

I decided I needed a little TLC and I found it, as I always do, in a poem given to me eons ago by my dear friend, Laura Kvasnosky:

God Says Yes to Me

by Kaylin Haught

I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic

and she said yes

I asked her if it was okay to be short

and she said it sure is

I asked her if I could wear nail polish

or not wear nail polish

and she said honey

she calls me that sometimes

she said you can do just exactly

what you want to

Thanks God I said

And is it even okay if I don't paragraph

my letters

Sweetcakes God said

who knows where she picked that up

what I'm telling you is

Yes Yes Yes

This is for anyone else out there who is feeling less than Christmasy and in need of a yes.