This was a coooool prompt!\u00a0 Below is a peek into the chaos of the house of a teacher at the end of the school year.\u00a0 It sounds a right mess but it is just life scattered around the house of a family with a teenager and a young adult woman in transition into her grad studies in another province in process of moving…my children on the move.<\/p>\n
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walking in the chaos<\/em><\/p>\n these piles of clothes<\/p>\n this lived in home<\/p>\n that is new and not new<\/p>\n <\/p>\n scattered pieces of life laying down on<\/p>\n floor<\/p>\n couch<\/p>\n table<\/p>\n <\/p>\n dust<\/p>\n remnants of meals<\/p>\n heels<\/p>\n reverberations of other people\u2019s lives not yet covered<\/p>\n by mine<\/p>\n or my family\u2019s<\/p>\n <\/p>\n attempts to place memories<\/p>\n from other places<\/p>\n in spaces too small to fit them all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n piles of books<\/p>\n gifts<\/p>\n photos of other times from other homes<\/p>\n where I felt more like they were mine than somebody else\u2019s<\/p>\n <\/p>\n contained chaos in empty cereal boxes and milk cartons<\/p>\n dishes in sinks<\/p>\n vases of roses given in gratitude remind me I am here for other purposes<\/p>\n than my own<\/p>\n <\/p>\n padding on floors<\/p>\n to scattered rooms filled with remnants of business<\/p>\n dropped or placed<\/p>\n rested<\/p>\n draped<\/p>\n flung-back sheets in anticipation of days filled with hope to rise to the sun and reach for something new<\/p>\n reminds me life is filled with business and prayers in motion<\/p>\n walking prayers when we don\u2019t have time to stop and kneel<\/p>\n or reach our hands to the quaking leaves and feel the wind in our hair<\/p>\n reminds me<\/p>\n this too is life<\/p>\n this too is living a walking prayer<\/p>\n a thankfulness<\/p>\n remembering to stop and hear the voice of Creator in this mess sometimes, too<\/p>\n <\/p>\n because it means we live<\/p>\n and our living is full of dreams and prayers<\/p>\n and hopes that we bring medicine into this aching world<\/p>\n even when we leave footprints in the dust of our own floors<\/p>\n (c) r. l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was a coooool prompt!\u00a0 Below is a peek into the chaos of the house of a teacher at the end of the school year.\u00a0 It sounds a right mess but it is just life scattered around the house of a family with a teenager…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49558,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49502\/revisions\/49558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}