Hour 2: Spiral Recipe

Ingredients:

  1. spirals
  2. garden
  3. dive
  4. waterfall
  5. gratitude

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.

Hour 1, Prompt 1: write about a famous woman

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.