By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 10 pm 28/06/2020 Australian EST

Prompt 24; Hour 24: Write a poem about a gift, real or imagined, fantastical or boring.

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{The Greatest Gift}            

 

The greatest gift I have been given

Is this precious life in which I have striven

to be the best person I possibly can

to enrich and enjoy and be kind to all.

Even when times have been sad

I cherish all that I’ve ever had

and from this life I’ve developed these skills

to play with words and create some form

To express what sometimes cannot be expressed

The ability to envision and invoke

To emotionally move and touch a heart

Merging the internal with the external

All these elements that I so love

When I’m out in nature taking photographs

and writing haiku to merge the spiritual

with the concrete and capture its essence

I’m in my element. What a gift!

But now as I write my twenty-forth poem

I yearn for sleep and struggle for substance

I feel like a marathon runner who has hit the brick wall

at the 20 kilometre mark and I’m all over the place

I’ve got the wobbles but herein lies another gift –

The completion of 24 hours of poetry

and discovering that I can actually survive

on waking up every hour and power napping in between.

I’m feeling empowered and inspired

so thank you my friends. Goodnight xx