Good morning Poetry lovers!
It’s February eve. I have always loved February. Sure, it is my birth month, but that is not the reason for my February love. It’s a sweet little month. It’s got the potential to be the best of winter - the most snow, I hope, and within it all a sweet holiday with the best candy of all holidays, really. Those heart shaped boxes! Delicious!
As I grow into this year I have realized that writing is a passion and also a discipline. I have had a falling out with it and lost my routine, lost my clarity of thought, lost my calm places. And they are coming back. Lesson - they come back. It comes back. It takes work. And time. And devotion.
I wrote a few poems about this going away and coming back of writing, my poetry voice, my spaces and places of listening and creating.
And to conclude, a poem about our friend, January. She was full of hope, and then full of waiting.
January
A Poem
A month that felt like decades
and yet, hardly enough snow, hardly enough time,
repeatedly grasping that nothing is forever, nothing is always
that change is it, always, that we are, I am, this is, temporary and
is temporary for everyone, has always been in transition, in transit, people say
there’s a place where all time exists at the same time and I would like
to stop by this realm of multiple realms and visit, to experience something that I can call a return but in this place, in our regular place,
all time is just going, one way,
one direction, one destination
even if it passes slowly or feels like a creep or a crawl, even if some moments carve deep into chests and bodies and pollute organs with stress and illness,
it is moving forward moving forward moving forward and laying here
in wait in wonder has no impact on what time is up to
so may as well move in it not just with it
but in it like a crown like a blanket like an inflatable donut in a pool
we can wear it or it can wear us, after all.
Thank you all for reading, supporting, and making me feel like I am doing a thing. More things and doing ahead, 2020 style, soon.
Happy February Eve!
Sincerely,