It’s Poetry Friday and I’ve missed you. Thank you for welcoming me to this space sporadically, as my heart allows. Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference is our host today. Thank you, Tabatha, for your big heart!
Expansion — This is my one word for 2026.
As seemed fitting to my year, I trusted Morgan Harper Nichols to choose the word for me. She invited us to watch her very quick video and take a screenshot to find a word. Expansion was my first stop. (Click on the images below to see it in action.)
I do want to expand in all these ways: my horizons, my love, my capacity for widening my humanity, my sense and sensibilities, my growth as a human, my awareness of my own weaknesses. I want all that for myself, but also for our country and Christ’s church, as well. So I humbly choose EXPANSION for 2026.
On Monday, I hosted at Ethical ELA’s Open Write, and with the help of a post from Molly Hogan, my prompt was to use collective nouns in a poem. I wrote this one inspired by my one word for 2026.
Hopes for an Expansive New Year
A crop of capacities
A rejection of aspersions
A rein of realizations
An exposing of perversions
A justice of promises
A referendum of reversions
A gentle churning of convictions
A probity of conversions
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