Shine your light
when you feel vulnerable
Shine!
Find beauty in chaos
chaos in beauty
and fall
Fall!
Creating from our growing pains
breaks boundaries
Shift from your head to your heart
let go of your muse
and play
Play!
Outside the box
the truth changes perspectives
If our world was inside out
upside down
would you listen to the music
dance under the stars?
Your wild rhythm
processes your feelings
feel the shift
dig deeper
Dig!
Explore touch, remember the taste
of things stirring in your belly
Can you feel
gratitude
for what you’ve not allowed yourself to do yet?
break the rules
Break!
You will be different
You will be the same
The magic of our choices:
I am the tracks
I am the light
I am the dark
I am the shadow
My voice grows stronger
I embrace myself
Embrace!
Shine
Fall
Play
Dig
Break
Embrace
There’s beauty in chaos
and chaos in beauty
My poem for the last day of #OctPoWriMo is an ode to our host, Morgan Dragonwillow, author of Wild Women Waking. She manages to keep up octpowrimo.com and the daily prompts even when her times are tough. I’ve build this poem from her words. 31 days of prompts are represented.
On a less important side note: this poem is missing line breaks again, I had to much going on this month to be willing to invest in learning the WordPress block editor – or find the well-hidden classic editor that seems to still be around if you persist.
I’ve persisted with writing poems instead. 31 in 31 days. A crazy endeavour. Each year. I never regret it.
Art by Morgan Dragonwillow. Please check her Patreon page if you’d like to support her work and what she gives to others.
Oh Loved it simply loved it.. such a beautiful message for Morgan….
Have a blessed life…💖
Beautiful ode, Angela.
Excellent write, Angela! It’s been wonderful to read your words this month. 🙂
Fine work indeed, Angela. I usually attempt the Poem-A-Day thing in April. I’m usually fairly successful, but…twice in one year? Not in me.
Congrats on your fine durability.
Thank you Ron! Believe me, each year before April or October begins I find myself thinking “I shoudln’t do this this year, it’s going to be too much.”
I think you are more steady throughout the year. I always need recovery after April and October, and I quit writing for a while. Sometimes even from November to March I think 😉
Angela, this is a dandy poem and a lovely tribute to Morgan! Brava!! So nice to read your work this year. Thank you for all of it. xoA ❤
Thank you Annis. It’s been a joy!
Thank you for this Ode to Morgan. I cannot express the deep gratitude I carry for her and her work. Without her, I’d still be thinking “Me, write poetry?” and instead, I’m considering trying to publish my first book. This year was not a year where I could express it more fully than by participating. I think I am missing a day or two. One I actually have a poem for, I just haven’t found the energy to finish the art piece that goes with it. So I guess it’s 30 in 31 days. Not bad considering my health I guess… 😀
It’s always a pleasure to read you Angela, and an honour to be your friend.
XO