24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
Ingredients:
I plant spirals everywhere I go.
A garden full of climbing vines,
thoughts that turn and tumble
round the purpose of the moment,
finding all the nooks and crannies
where they can scatter past
appointed tasks, diving
quick as minnows swirling
in a stream,
silver-flashing gone
through waterfalls of inspiration.
I plant spirals and wait
in gratitude.
Audre Lorde
I never knew you,
I don’t know you now.
I don’t know half of what would help me
speak my truth.
You tell me that my silence
will not protect me,
even though I have learned
it’s safer to hold my thoughts within.
I recognize, accept, and celebrate
our differences and the similarities
that make us sisters.
I want to be like you: powerful voice,
strength in vision.
You teach me it is not important
if I am afraid,
as long as I speak.
I am learning to define myself for myself,
not holding back for the world,
as I speak from the strength
of these words.
Walking barefoot along the spiral path of life.