A while ago I was part of a group that was challenged to give their hand at a blackout poem. It felt like a challenge, and I needed the distraction so I decided to give it a try. I grabbed one of my absolute favorite works of literature, The Odyssey by Homer. I started just flipping through the pages and landed on a random page (which I then went online and found a digital copy of the book and pulled up that page) and started blacking out any words that didn't resonate with me and how I was feeling that day.
I had absolutely no idea how many times I would return to that work.
upon the Fire
slumber left me
eyes opened
I went down the path
grief took hold and I cried aloud
meanwhile amid the morning
bore from heaven full light in the storm clouds made
peace among me
With the move I've found myself lost, and struggling to get back to "me", and every time I sit down at my computer I see my poem sitting there on my desktop. Reminding me that even in every storm there is a morning, there is light again, there is peace somewhere along the way. I may still be struggling with this transition to Clearwater, Florida, but it is just that, a transition. It will feel more normal soon. I just have to keep looking for the stars through the storm!
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