Birth, Death and Re-birth
Summer, Spring, Winter and Fall
Each- A Life Cycle
A Movement, a Call!
Birth, Death and Re-birth
The changing of the Seasons
throughout this Life,
we learn the many reasons.
Birth, Death and Re-birth
a return to Life once more-
a repeated pattern of Birth, Death and Re-birth
now and forever more.
Hour 3 Poem3 Half-Marathon 2021 by Ingrid Exner
One of the hardest things to do in writing is to articulate deep, complex ideas in a beautifully simple way – and you’ve done exactly that with this poem. Appreciated it so much that I read it several times!
Thank you so much! I repeated one line one too many times…but we won’t tell anyone…Thank you for enjoying my poem Sacred Repetition As \Life Repeats.
Such a great reminder. Thanks Ingrid. So appreciate that you see the healing aspect of poetry. I have worked here on the Canadian west coast as a poetry therapist for many years. Poetry helps healing unbelievably! One thi9ng you might think about with your poem Ingrid: What about filling in the abstractions with concrete images. What are some births, deaths, rebirths for you? What the births deaths and rebirths in the sdeasons that grab you! Like this: Spring and foals, legs longer than summer; Summer and cicadas, songs longet than Fall etc. etc.
Thanks Richard! I am not submitting this poem to the anthology but I will definitely take what you say into consideration when I do my own edits and publish this. Are you a social worker and do poetry therapy? I would love to discuss this more. Thanks!
It is a cycle that goes on… Never ceasing… Well expressed…