Poetry from Julie Jordan Scott

Poetry: My Forever.... Bum Boom Bum Boom Bum Boom

The rhythm is all around me

Bum Boom Bum Boom Bum Boom

Red walls or red blanket or red.... what?

Can't seem to discern the relevant words

In retelling this pre-language tale.

Bum Boom Bum Boom Bum Boom

I am here -

You are here -

We are here -

All is good -

We are safe -

There is love -

There is love -

There is love -

I hear what I now know are voices.

I feel what I now know are my mother's hands,

touching my red blanket home,

caressing my red blanket home,

my red blanket home touches and

caresses me.

My thumb in my mouth takes

that caress and translates it into

comfort -

bum boom bum boom bum boom.

all is well -

all is well -

all is well -

Love is here.

Love is here -

Love is here -

Poetry lived with me

in my mother's womb.

There was never a choice

there simply was:

love love love -

prelanguage notions

of poetry translated

by crayon three years later.

My mother copied letters with love

My little self copied straight lines and curves.

Bum Boom Bum Boom Bum Boom

Poetry has been my forever companion

Never leaves me.

Never chooses anyone else.

Caresses my neck when it is tight.

Covers me with a  blanket when my

feet are cold.

Bum Boom, Bum Boom, Bum Boom.....

-- Julie Jordan Scott

 

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Image prompt from Magpie Tales: Charlotte Gainsbourg AnOther

Tupelo

She searches for answers

In the vinyl silence

Only word-symbols

Climb up her

Non-existent sleeve

Even emptier than the

Walls, her feet,

The barren carpet

Who cares who was

Born in Tupelo?

She doesn’t hesitate

In her quest for what

Is real

Because the only

Real she knows is

Loneliness.

Life without an ear

To listen to what

She most needed

Even her shadow

Turned away

 

Writing in my notebook on the Lawn at Emily Dickinson's House

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