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This weekend was busy. First, we had the delight of seeing a niece and her family on Saturday and Sunday, but it was a quick trip for their family through our town. Saturday also happened to be the Poetry Marathon. Two wonderful events in one weekend!
I got behind and didn’t give the Marathon my all, but I did manage to write 24 poems in 24 hours. The best part, though, was seeing my niece. We had a chance to talk about family history and then some family dynamics that are painful to live with and hard to understand this side of heaven. It was a blessed time to connect.
This weekend also began this month’s OpenWrite. It’s still going Tuesday and Wednesday. Maybe you’d like to join us.
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, with Jessica Wiley
Quiet
Collected Poems
Illuminate
Louder than Hunger
Chaotic Thinking
Be a Maker
The Hurting Kind
The Carrying
The Fire Next Time
Big Magic
Tuesday, 18 June 2024, with Anna Small Roseboro
Let’s Be Better
Recalling the
Umbrage with which you
Make known your faith:
Is God so angry and
No longer willing to confer?
A just, loving God
Transferred all
Infallibility to
Only you? No, I think you do
Not really believe that either.
Recent ruminations have
Explored my
Capacity for holding the
Knowledge of the raggedness
Of our fear to take up trauma.
Nevertheless,
“I can do hard things.”
Now I choose to take the risk to
Grapple with those fears.
Monday, 17 June 2024, with Susan Ahlbrand
She
was not
the one I
would have thought would
go to dental school.
Sure, she worked hard as a
junior higher, stayed after
class, tried to retain toilsome
details. This month she graduated.
She’s Dr. S. (Of course, I should have known.)
Sunday, 16 June 2024, with Margaret Simon
Duplex for the Coyote Howling Nearby
What has hurt you so this evening
That you shout so raucously?
You shout so raucously
Is your baby safe?
Your coyote pup–is it okay?
You had been quiet lately
You had been so quiet lately,
But tonight your mournful bark
Tonight, your mournful bark
Makes me sad and lonely too.
Sad and lonely is passed on to me
As you scream your yip yapping elegy.
Is it an elegy you yipyap scream?
This evening that hurts with you.
Saturday, 15 June 2024, with Sarah Donovan
These poets
are the impetus of identity
the providers of peace
in knowing myself
loving myself
more honestly
the seekers of truth
in finding my way
in the world as it
really is and not just
as I always knew it
These poems
are the tingling fingers
of an adventurous
and risky
ascent
into
knowing
These interactions
are the honeyed
story
of
life