Today begins National Poetry Writers Month. Or as we like to call it…NaPoWriMo. A poem everyday. I started my poetry journey with this day a year ago. It has been an entire year that I have written a poem Every day for 366 days. (leap year ya know) I find it amazing that I have actually done this and…that I’m going on with it. This is not so much a new beginning as it is an on going investment in my writing poetry. I plan to gather some of my poems from this year and make a book. I will keep you updated. For those of you that have taken this journey with me, if you have a favorite, please let me know so that I might include it. And… THANK YOU so very much for following this poets journey. I dedicate all my foolishness to you as I continue to ‘jump in’ everyday to this Fool’s love of life. Namaste’
How about this fool?
The Fool doesn’t need to know
She doesn’t need to know where to go
What ledges to teeter on or abyss
To fling out into for the free fall
All edges are fair jumping from
Jumping from or into, or out to
The vast possibilities of the unknown
Waiting to get known with a leap
Giving trust because why not
Hard to discern the Fate of it
That leap, that jump, that free for all
at the edge of just over there or
right where you are right now
In the wonder of what to do next
You know what to do next you always did
Life is a gamble, a bet, a chance, a risk
It’s an engagement with love fearlessly
It’s a trust in what you think you know
Grabbing at the air with an inhale
Quivering on the edge of a heart beat
A rush of blood to your surfaces
Silken soft is the hard steel of living
What better risk than to give it all
That’s right Give It All to the leap, the jump
Give it to the trust that where you land
Is exactly where you’re suppose to be
There is no time, so there is no limit
Then jump again cause it’s what
You’ve been doing all along
Don’t think you haven’t,
That’s one way to be fooled
Choose your abyss before it chooses you
Edge your way to Loves opening
Bring all your nothing to be
Everything and damn it…JUMP
