Welcome to Poetry Party #83!
Instead of selecting an image this month, we ask you to consider your Word for the Year as your poetry muse. We began this month with a Community Visio Divina practice with an image of a threshold and the theme of hospitality, asking what you will welcome in this year and followed up with our Photo Party. (You are most welcome to still participate). We continue this theme in our Poetry Party this month. What qualities or practices does your Word for the Year ask you to invite in as we continue to welcome in the new year?
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!
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Contentment
My word is laughter.
The House of Laughter
it is night
you are drenched in darkness
look up and see
a single angel
her robes radiant white
the word “joy” inscribed on her forehead
her open arms welcome you
into the golden light
into the house of laughter
come in
come in my dear friend
through the doorway
of my heart
Beautiful and playful, Elaine. I love how you begin “you are drenched in darkness”…and it opens from there, to laughter!