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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100 Responses
I need this word, Pat…and the poem is beautiful!
Pat Fadden
January 20 at 11:55am · Palm Coast, FL
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My word is mindful
M mind, be fully conscious
I interior life
N noticing
D discerning
F fully attentive
U using all my senses
L listening, learning
My word is TRY.
Taking
Risks
Year
Just saying “try”, it already implies that it is, Laura!
My word for the year is BREATHE:
Breathe the names of God, in and out…
Return again, and again, and again—remembering that the breath of God,
breathing the Word. sustains me
Every moment of every hour of every day of every year
As long as my life lasts on this earth.
Thank you, Lord, for
Hearing me, seeing me, knowing me, for
Ever!
Wonderful, Sallie. Your poem speaks to me, especially the last two lines.
My word is unleash
Uniquely
Noticing the
Lifegiving,
Energetic & embracing
Aliveness of a
Shattering
Happiness
You got it, Harriet!
come home little one
rest in heart ~ truth ~ love caring
breathing your self free
My word is Faith.
Forgive(n)
Anticipate
Include
Thankful
Healing
What a beautiful picture, Kathy. Those trees and land are expecting spring, but they are beautiful right now. Faith!
My word for 2015 is Daring.
Dance, Beloved One, with
Abandon
Release your tears as
Incarnate prayers, sweet
Nectar, the waters of
Grace to heal you
Beautiful, Nancy!
thank you!
My word for the year is Vibrancy.
Vitality
Is
Being
Radiant (or Resilient)
And
Not
Cowering.
YES!
Amen, you summed it up in one word—YES!!!
My word for the year is Transfiguration. It came as a result of listening to my SD to contemplate the work “Open” and being confronted daily with a print by Sadao Watanabe sitting in my closet waiting along with my wife and I for our move to a new home….
I love the alliteration, Kevin!