I took a quick view of my poems from last April, mostly to see what I wrote on the 4th, 5th, and 6th of the month. I cracked up when I saw that I had written a poem on April 4th about being cranky and then I wrote one yesterday, the 5th, about being cranky. Do you think there is a pattern here? HA…
Maybe it’s an early April/Spring thing. The crank doesn’t last long. I’m re-sharing lasts years after I write this years daily gift to my poetry experience, cause I can…
Also.. last year, on the 6th of April, the prompt was called an ekphrastic poem. That is writing a poem about A song, a painting, an historical monument,… something of significance that inspires the poem.
The card I’ve chosen is what inspires me this morning.
TWO OF SWORDS
Transform the handle
of life
Clear the way to sea
deeply
Seal the deal a thousand
petals at a time
Cross your hearts to live
a life worth living
Clarify the view beyond
the veil
Flourish in the intent
of communion
Know better yourself
because of others
This is the way home
~~~~~~~~~~~
4th april 2011
Ode to Cranky
The drift of it is snow white and heavy.
Dense, wet, too deep
It makes the distance to
the feel good on the other
side of it.
over there.
just over there.
daunting.
You like to think you’re dressed
for it
Crank ready and fierce.
Plowing through the density of it’s
hot chill.
The dry ice of life sticks hard
Vulnerability leaves you open
to feel it all.
Feel it you must,
to know the other side.
to the just over there
where spring greens and the seeds
of you wait to bloom again.
Congratulations on your amazing creative accomplishment. Thank you for providing over a year of thoughtful, wild, and inspired reading!
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