Tag: light

Featherweight

by Lindsay, posted in poetry 
We spend our winters building hardened resistance 
Through the routine of shoulder hunching and thickening blood 
 As gradually the filtered light that shifts 
 Across wood panels and kitchen tiles
 Lingers into longer hours.
  
 Without cognizance, we let fall
Our experiences, as a dog 
Sheds its winter coat
 Throughout 
 Each houseroom.
  
 Leaving our
 Convictions as paper scraps to be 
 Swept up with toast crumbs – 
 and our tear drops 
 for mopping.
  
 Never knowing the
 Featherweight
 Of our skin
 Until it is.
  
 And we stand
 Pondering
 The swiftness of
 Transformation.
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This poem was written for the dVerse prompt given by Lillian on Tuesday to write a poem containing a form of the word shed. https://dversepoets.com/2019/01/22/shed-some-light-on-this-today/

I Want to Be a Poet.

by Lindsay, posted in poetry, writing 
I want to be a poet and a painter
 A writer and a dancer
  
 I want to capture the world as I see it 
 And dissect it to be examined
  
 I want to empty my mind 
 With the light and dark of the world
  
 And spend my days beneath broad leaves
 Or even bare branches
  
 The roots of trees hugging me 
 Without ever touching me
  
 Pulling me in through the dirt
 As I remain on top soil
  
 Though I am not a plant
 I would be lucky to be so green
 And growing towards the sun

Happy New Year everyone! For the first year in a while, I don’t have any concrete resolutions this January first. What I do have is this: a new year with new thoughts, new energy, new longings.