After today, October 23, I have just 7 poems left to write in the #Octpowrimo poetry challenge which spans the month of October. This challenge has required of my brain and heart and soul a rendering of my life transcribed into daily poetry. There are moments I have captured a poem idea but I’m in the middle of something… homeschooling or cooking, caregiving, or doing the list of chores my right brain requires. Those people who love me know I have a left brain that tries to drive both sides.
Anyhow thank you, you poets who came up with this artistic month long stretch and making us all work our creative muscle and lift some heavy word weight!
Poetry Month
October is the perfect stretch
For mind and soul and heart to fetch
New thoughts, old ideas
Holding them warm until they hatch
…
Solutions are babies
And feelings, the crazies
Then there’s things we all ought to know
So we try some on and wear them out
Til they, independent, grow
…
To mull and to ponder
And chase em o’er yonder
Across the mind field of near almost defeat,
Tackling, ramshackle-ing
Holding up by their feet
…
But then those thoughts that slide sideways
Down through the heart’s pathways
And wriggle all cozied up under your skin
Are the ones best divided
And held tightly captive
…
Fine tuned, put to rhyme
With a beat and some time
A laugh and a tear
Or a hug
And a sigh
…
~Julie Robinson
great tribute to a precious experience, the daily rendering of this group!
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