Welcome to Poetry Party #74!
I suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your own poem. Scroll down and add it in the comments section below or join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group and post there.
Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the invitation on your blog (if you have one), Facebook, or Twitter, and encourage others to come join the party!
We began this month with a Community Lectio Divina practice on the ancient desert practice of asking for a word, and followed up with our Photo Party on the theme of “Give Me a Word” inspired by our invitation to let a word for 2014 choose you (here – you can still share it, although prize winners have been announced). We continue this theme in our Poetry Party this month.
Write a poem inspired by your word, something you could use as a prayer or blessing throughout the year, or just a simple reminder of how your word is inviting you to be in the year to come. In our free 12-day mini-retreat one of the suggestions was to write an acrostic poem from your word, where you write your word vertically on the page and each letter becomes the first letter for that particular line of the poem. See what form your poem wants to take!
You can post your poem either in the comment section below*or you can join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group (with more than 1000 members!) and post there.
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45 Responses
internal
seeking, searching ..
intent
intensify
intentional
My word is Auspicious
The time is Auspicious
Energy
Con-spic -uous!
Ambitious!
The feeling delicious
A Spirit infusion
Dexstrous
Expectant
Pregnant with Joy!
Drawn from the well
Despair
Through the Alchemy
Of simple Humanity
And into the Light
Auspicious
My word is ‘longing’.
Longing, Working,
Hoping, Yearning,
Praying, Longing…
To find the way,
to make a path,
toward healing.
Healing for my body,
Freedom from fatigue;
The lifting of depression,
I long to find relief.
Healing for the hurting,
Comfort for those who grieve;
Peace for all in turmoil,
Cures for all disease.
Healing for this world of ours,
For violence to cease;
Equality for humankind,
For justice, love, and peace.
Longing, Working,
Hoping, Yearning,
Praying, Yearning,
That all may know God’s peace.
My word is “easy”.
Easy
Be easy,
easy
Let the made-up talking heads
shrill out their lies,
a fist full of rocks
bouncing off your head.
Easy,
be easy
in the neon of big screen violence.
Let the dark creatures of skin searing death
ooze through these waters
carrying their load of unremitting agony.
Easy,
be easy
in this land of military glory
as the red lips slither over white teeth
as the warheads rest in their beds.
Be easy
easy
Thankyou for this beautiful poem!!!!!
FOUND POEM
‘There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change.
But it doesn’t change.’
Believing, I unravel a length of my strand – just long enough
to discover how RESILIENT settled upon my spirit.
‘While you hold it you can’t get lost.’
Believing, I summon up the trail of words that must have been traveled:
JOY
MYSTERY
SHED
DELIGHT
FEARLESS….
I am not unsettled by the indecipherable pattern.
‘Nothing you do can stop life’s unfolding.’
Believing, I write my haiku
irrepressible
buoyant flexibility
ebullient me
‘You don’t ever let go of the thread.’
~ deep thanks to William Stafford, ‘The Way It Is’
My word was “fortitude” . . .
Focus
On
Receiving
The
Interior
Truths
Unwavered
anD
Endured
Simplify.
Simplify, make ready.
Closets, drawers, attic, soul.
Space to dream, to dance.
My word for this year is Focus:
For
Overcoming
Chasing
Useless
Stressors
For
Obligations
Choosen
Unwisely
Swiftly
For
Outreaches
Cramping
Under
Service
For
Outside
Circle’s
Unabated
Screams
For
Oculars
Circumventing
Using
Spirit
For
Our
Church’s
Unheard
Sirens
For
Out-thought
Childlike
Understanding,
Simplicity
FOCUS….
Liked the way you used the word to build the poem!