✨ Portrait of a Reader: Jack Cooper

Gardening. Vanilla. A birthday poem. Meet a fellow Every Day Poems reader!

As part of our upcoming 12th birthday celebration, we asked readers to share about themselves and their experiences with Every Day Poems.

Jack Cooper has joined in and shared some inspiring things we hope you’ll enjoy!

About Jack

Reader Jack Cooper has been with our Every Day Poems community for eight years. He’s a writer who loves organic gardening. (And now we want to know: what does his garden grow? :)

Geography

Jack lives in Eugene, Oregon, and he looks forward in spring to the “tiny pink blossoms on the old plum tree that smell like vanilla.”

Every Day Poems Reading Ritual?

“Total random,” says Jack. “Some days I read a whole week’s worth.”

Tea or Coffee?

Cascade Organic French Roast.

Cake

Coffee cake.

Birthday Greeting to Every Day Poems

Jack wrote a poem to Every Day Poems for the birthday celebration, then capped it off with a greeting:

Every day
a poem appears
like a second sun
like a hungry bird
like hope

Every day
a word takes your breath away
a line sings something not heard before
a thought reaches out to you
without your knowing

The poems descend 
and ascend
inspire and console
needle and tweak 
and beautify

And every day they come 
and every week
and every year after year
feeding from your attention
nesting in your bones and dreams

“I’m so happy to celebrate your Delightful Dozen years! Time flies! I can’t believe 12 years have gone by already. You haven’t aged a bit. You’re still as beautiful as ever.”

Quote from Every Day Poems to Send to Himself on His Own Birthday

“the great blue heron seems to be teleported here
from the Jurassic
to look for extinct species of fish”

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Thank you, Jack, for sharing with the community! :)

Featured photo by Jelleke Vanooteghem, via Unsplash.