24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
Every move you make
Every dance you shake
Every smile you give
Every day you live
I’ll be loving you
Every time you cry
When life goes awry
Every stint you’re mean
Whether dirty or clean
I’ll be loving you
Every time
Every day
Every season
Every life
Every being
I’ll be loving you
I’ll be loving you
Inspired by Sting’s “I’ll Be Watching You”.
How are we to
understand the workings of
the world when we cannot
comprehend how we
operate in the spaces
where humans talk to each other?
This life this journey
through time is full of
many unexpected unsettling
happenings that jolt us
from the humdrum to
the mere moment of being.
What love is
not Cinderella and the glass slipper
rather it’s slipping on the glass and given a hand to stand up;
What love is
not Sleeping Beauty awakened by a kiss after a hundred years of sleep
rather it’s being brought breakfast after sleeping in on a Sunday morning;
What love is
not Belle dancing at the ball with an atrocious but kind Beast
rather it’s the permission to miss the ball and cuddle with that atrocious but kind beast;
What love is
not being awakened with a kiss after biting into a poisoned apple
rather it’s being loved enough to have someone give the Heimlich to cough up
the apple that chokes you;
love is living the real life
with all of the falls, sleeping in, staying in and rescues from the apple chunks
that’s the whole story of love.
What is Love? You may ask.
To me it’s living without a mask.
Love is not sex or romance as society may say.
It’s lifetime commitment, come what may.
Respect, honesty, loyalty, communication, all parts of love.
To forgive and forgive again like from above.
Love is life, it holds families together.
It’s what you take with you into the forever.
Prompt 5 words
Hiding in my fall jacket
Taking that self care mom moment
Sitting in my carport before I go inside
Before the cars lightbulb gives my secret away
Drinking from my Starbucks Bucket
Wrapped in cinnamon warmth
Moms Secret Time
Mmmmmm Pumpkin Spice Season
What is Love?
Nib. Nibs.
If you know, you know.
(I needed a break. My butt hurts and I want to finish strong in the half marathon. See, I can’t do the full marathon anymore. Hee. Hee.)
The Throne
It is in the throne room my greatest ideas come to me,
A place clean and glistening,
sterile by effort and design.
There is a beautiful waterfall that comes from a glistening chrome mountaintop
And a shallow pond in which to wade.
Though many balk at such a kingdom
And view it as a horrid place,
After my morning coffee I can disappear within for hours
It is from this place I write this now, eager for a win
Once I’m done with dinner, I’ll return here once again.
M.M.I.W
(Murdered, missing indigenous women)
Many mothers
Missing the lives of their
Infant children growing up,
Weeping families demanding justice.
What Is Love?
Choice
Sacrifice
Trust
Honesty
Fidelity
Hope
Kindness
Patient
NOT:
Proud
Arrogant
Boastful
Dishonest
Unkind
Impatient
Unfaithful
Selfish
It is too bad the world chases after the NOT rather than the IS.