In the month of May, author Kaitlin Curtice hosted a poetry challenge on her blog, asking readers to write a poem a day based on a prompt word. Here are some of my favorites that I wrote that month.
May poem day 1: Success
Success
is the art of going from one
spring flower to the other
without a loss of enthusiasm.
Success
is climbing to the top of the ladder
to pick cherry blossoms for your table.
Success
is learning who you are
in the grand web of life
and learning to rest there,
at peace with all your succession
in the dance of things.
May poem day 2: Fear
What shall I do with you?
Put you in a box where you don’t get any air?
Let you trample me like wildebeests?
Throw you again and again into the river?
Alchemize you into anger or a stomachache?
Or sit with you like a crying child and let you feel yourself fully
(which is what I fear most of all)?
May poem day 6: Belief
How do I hold you
without you transforming into something monstrous?
How do I cherish you
without you spreading through the well like strychnine?
You were my closest friend,
my only tenet of faith,
strong and secure,
unyielding,
unwavering,
unbreaking,
unassailable,
untouchable.
Then like a tsunami you yielded
You wavered
You broke
You were assailed
You were touched
by something greater and wilder and more reckless than yourself:
a world destroyed and shattered in every possible way:
Grace.
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