A place to gather words before they get lost.
with watermelon seeds we swallowed as children ... — Nomi Stone
Wonder what has rooted inside of us - despite warnings of elders, we swallowed it all; maybe there's an entire forest growing inside silent places, the spaces no one else sees, the seeds of abundance and stories
Day 15 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Waiting For Happiness' by Nomi Stone https://poets.org/poem/waiting-happiness
teach me to never bend again — Danez Smith
for what we've become: creases, uncomfortable patterns folded in, then tucked inside pants pockets, then forgotten until after the drier, pulled apart like a paper snowball, all compact of ink and pulp and us
Day 14 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Less Hope' by Danez Smith https://poets.org/poem/less-hope
Informational information; Monitorial foliation - flatiron tinfoil: afloat afoot afar - Art or?
for DS106 Daily Create
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And might you have a bit of magic in that feather pen of yours, a little bit of ink of forgiveness to sketch across my page, so that in the side margins, in that edge of art and ideas, I might settle in, in seclusion?
Day 13 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Work Without Hope' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge https://poets.org/poem/work-without-hope
You could make this place beautiful — Maggie Smith
Use paint, though it might splinter and chip
Use voice, though it might wobble and crack
Use love, though it might falter and fade
This place will be beautiful, at some distant day
Day 12 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Good Bones' By Maggie Smith https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones
Then comes a sudden flash of light ... — Alice Dunbar-Nelson
How long had we sat inside, waiting for fireflies, for their phosphorous spirit to spark the night's dark?
Too long to not become logy, sluggish in a tiny tent filled between with snacks and teens
who still believed in a bit of magic, even if not one of us breathed it out loud
Day 11 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by “Hope” Alice Dunbar-Nelson https://poets.org/poem/hope-1
We ponder what patterns matter other than moons and tides — Patricia Spears Jones
I am listening, ear against skin, to the way her heartbeat sings, a rhythmic trance from one who's leaning such a weary body against mine, and mine, against hers, in order to find sync
Day 10 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'May Perpetual Light Shine' by Patricia Spears Jones https://poets.org/poem/may-perpetual-light-shine
and orchards rooted in constellations — Muriel Rukeyser
Sometimes, our stories bud and bloom like flowers, like stars, like something golden and delicious on orchard trees, and just before nightfall, we lay back and look up, connecting them together to make sense of the world
Day 9 for #AdventPoems24 From “Elegy in Joy” by Muriel Rukeyser https://poets.org/poem/elegy-joy
White is everywhere this morning – night paint dripping off frozen branches
for Algot
but we are only believers — Gabrielle Marshall
A hidden handful of nuts seeded inside a ski boot is a lost note that some critter had endless amounts of hope of what might root when the need arises;
I remind myself of this, the faith of the forgotten, as I toss the same seeds back into the world
Day 8 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'The Power of Hope Today' by Gabrielle Marshall https://poets.org/poem/power-hope-today