Words, hard to find, nest themselves inside my ear

then, like that, disappear

a year or more later, there they are,

at rest as if they had never left

as if, they never went far

at all

Day 6 for #AdventPoems24 With only the vaguest reference to Nate Marshall's “what it is & will be” https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mMIKnZM1jq6CAi_1jzlJ6ujUFBJIyjSHkNwabBI4tOU/present#slide=id.g31698387273_0_1

Fur, too, digging in with little feet, burrowing in against the inclement - never waning, there's no time for complaining - there's only breathing in the rhythms of each other

Day 5 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Hope Is A Thing With Feathers' by Emily Dickinson https://poets.org/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254

... pavement strewn with the confetti ... by Ada Limon

I'm bent crooked from bending down at my waist as I pick up the words I dropped here yesterday, my ideas veined in yellow and gold, like leaves of Autumn, now just as fragile, too, and my clenched fingers turn each couplet and stanza into powdered dust, compost for some future poem

Day 4 for #AdventPoems24 Line taken from 'Instructions On Not Giving Up' by Ada Limon https://poets.org/poem/instructions-not-giving

Under time lives silence — from Original Hope by Lauren Camp

Quiet, then, for a moment,

a respite in the storm of noise

The world's most cherished silent spaces

beckon to us; we listen

Day 3 for #AdventPoems24 Inspired by 'Original Hope' by Lauren Camp https://poets.org/poem/original-hope

Dark roads like these don't remain so; the promise of morning always brings light

Day 2 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Opening The Hands Between Here And There' by Jane Hirshfield

Advent of Hope by Deanna M. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mMIKnZM1jq6CAi_1jzlJ6ujUFBJIyjSHkNwabBI4tOU/present#slide=id.g317dfd1e88d_0_0

Imagine loneliness on wheels, teetering off balance, as if skating on ice formed after a storm, with its arm outstretched for support, wondering who will be the one to hold you forever?

Day 1 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'The Rider' by Naomi Shihab Nye https://poets.org/poem/rider