New Year’s Eve Writings, 2020/2021 – Wayward Writers Zoom
Prompt Two: Things You Can’t Fit in a Basket – Seven Minutes
As the Sufi saying goes the only things that are truly yours are the things you don’t lose in a shipwreck. the things I can’t fit in a basket are sunset and dreams and plans – a million wildflowers in super bloom – the hills are washed crimson, almost like blood poured, silky poppies waving against ochre dirt and a brilliantly blue sky – like the firey orange red and the blues can’t quit coexist at that meter – they fight for dominance, almost ugly in the overwhelm
the things I can’t fit in this basket are hope and fortitude – these things dwell in my heart and body – the sufi saying echoes – the name of god in my heart beat, clanging against my ribcage like a bird aching for release – each beat an echo of things to come – the future is written in sand – the sand of a million tibetan sand paintings – painstaking and temporary – my flesh disperses in the breeze that blows the sand – these moments of transmutation are a gift
Prompt Three: A Wish or a Hope – Five Minutes
a wish for the coming year
can feel prosaic
but old times passing
sometimes call for
a bit of that
the passing of time
things moving on
I am hopeful
that I will find my way
I am hopeful that
we will gather
in these liminal spaces
together
as we are able
and we will grow
tree like
tenacious
reaching for what light there is
we will grow
and change
and the artifice
will
fall away
this is the clarion call
hearkening to a
new aeon
or is it the the same old
same
where the apocalypse
uncovers
another layer
of doubt?
we live
and grow
and reach for what light there is
tenacious
reaching for the golden sun
reaching for tomorrow
reaching for the wildness
uncovered in the
dark night
brimming with nightmares
we grow
treelike
roots deep in the soil
soul stretched
and yawning
we reach for this
reach for this
new day
I stand on hope
I dream on hope
I grow with hope
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