a k a OctPoWriMo Prompt #18 - Time
Slightly lace filtered Sunlight drips into my eyes
Super Mario bell reaches through a door and a wall
to remind me, school starts late today
This is the time, usually, I arrive at the keyboard.
Today, a blog post, a poem, a flurry of comments
and conversation take their first breaths.
Oh, to have a Nanny to do the driving so I
may simply sit here and gather words into
between my hungry elbows and breasts
and arrange them on a plate for you to devour…
only to realize
without the time invested in driving, in caretaking
in watching this lovely ravaged world float
around me and within me
there would be fewer words to love.
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Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She leads Writing Camp with JJS & this Summer will be traveling throughout the US to bring this unique, fun filled creative experience to the people wherever she finds the passion & the interest.
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I enjoyed the morning swirl of writing, comments, a love of words, somehow fantastic and connected at the same time, Super Mario Brothers through the wall.
Posted by: Beth Camp | October 18, 2012 at 06:41 PM
There is so much that can be gleaned from the "busy" in our lives if we just take the time to look, isn't there? That's what this poem definitely made me remember--that even though it feels like our word craft is limited by all the other things we have to do, it is enhanced by our experiences as well. (Those are my deep thoughts at almost-midnight, anyway!)
Posted by: Lena Corazon | October 18, 2012 at 11:25 PM
Julie -
We don't have that morning drive, or school - but I so know that feeling of waking to hear the music of a game....and the pull toward two worlds, at once - the swirling wonder of family and external life, and the inner world of words...
You've caught its essence, here. <3
Posted by: Shan Jeniah Burton | October 19, 2012 at 03:04 AM
I want to get you a nanny, you certainly deserve one. Who can do this much with their time??? Only you Julie!
Posted by: Danielle | October 19, 2012 at 07:11 PM