I like to experiment with words. These phrases were all contained in an email I wrote three days ago. Just as on my Facebook account where I have from time to time constructed poems out of the phrases found in recent postings on my live feed, I have constructed this poem. The poem, whose ordering of the phrases is different from the original email, still conveys the gist of what my email was about.
continue to pray
meditate on ways
to make things better
allay anxiety
foster relationships
listen harder to the nuances
give for the shy, tender efforts
trying to make it to the surface
growing weary
hearing myself comment
and complain
trolling for affirmations
people like me
thinking out loud
doing things the same way
expecting different outcomes
that space
that might
be done
just be
focus on what
not to say
I will stop
drowning out
communications
transparency
and speed
going on so
can be insanity
I will try to
shake things up
give everyone
the experience of feeling
options before us
to be nimble
improved
responsive
picking our way through
new choices
new wind sweeping through
refreshing us all
2 comments:
Interesting idea. It's kind of like Tarot or Rorschach testing-- seeing what you pull out of it and what it says about you.
What a wonderfully 'organic' way to write poetry. Thanks, Lelanda
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