Daily Prompt: Attending to the "some times"

Sometimes, we read the

lines in the green leaf

run our fingers over the

smooth of the precious wood

from our ancient trees;

Sometimes, even the sunset

puzzles, as we look

for the lines that propel the clouds,

the colour scheme

with the multiple designs

that the first artist put together

Every day news from our neighborhoods and the world breaks over the earth, with the grace of dawn or the clatter of a shattered vase. Humans can choose: ease or brutishness. Poetry calls us to action, to attend.

Eighteen days ago, Ghanian poet Kofi Awoonor died in the violence at Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall. Above is an excerpt from his poem "Across a New Dawn." 

Prompt: Think of a situation that calls you to action. What do you want to celebrate? What do you want to change? Put your attention there. And write a poem that starts with "Sometimes." Use the poetic technique of anaphora; repeat "sometimes" with each successive line or stanza. See what happens.