Day 3 of the 5 Day Poetry Challenge: I elected to give myself a break over the weekend. I was traveling and I not only didn't bring my computer (on purpose!) I didn't remember to bring my notebook (a shocking, glaring "oh my goodness how did I forget my constant traveling companion mistake!) as well. Instead of do the all or nothing shout of "I'm hereby OUT!" I declared myself still in the game, just on the weekday game.
Thank you again, to my friend Tess Kincaid, who tagged me in this five day poetry challenge.
Gentle sips of light drip into the eucalyptus tunnel,
lost in time while decades thunder through the sunbeams
fractures and fissures and stitched together diary pages
“You were here” and “you weren’t there,”
amongst the leaps of not knowing wrestling with
the remarkable boredom of rote doing over and over and
under and back and dipping into the love caskets
she waits and prays for some sort of meaning to catapult
her out of the drudgery and into the something else
the something the eucalyptus silently remember,
stand for, guide and hold close to their crackling skin
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To revisit a poem from long ago, visit this link with a poem I called "Ten Seconds of Silence" about another day with another tree.
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