“What’s the difference between hope and waiting?” (after Anna Kamienska’s, ‘Difference’)
Hope is trusting the lit-look steps,
the wild, trod-less path,
the unfolding …
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Beautiful Broken Things (after Alice Walker’s, ‘I will keep broken things’)
I rather like the idea of “an honoured shelf”
on which to keep broken things—
a conscious choice, an intentional decision
to love the broken things as they are in
their brokenness
A Recipe for Change
This is a story about metamorphosis
As illustrated by perimenopause
To be told in an essay
Body Talk (after Victoria Erikson’s, ‘To the woman starting over’)
“Lately, I’ve been using my body as pendulum. First, I stand still and steady. Breathe deeply, consciously for a moment, connecting inwards …”
Make Room for Living (after Nikita Gill’s, ‘Heroes’)
we have to heal, though not get too
swept up in the want to be healed
healing was never meant to be
a life-long journey …
Wild Trust (after Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s, ‘Because’)
I can’t go back in time and change
the way things were, so I practise
showing up differently, Here
and Now …