How To Get from Yesterday to Home #Day30 #NaPoWriMo

yesterday
home was a park bench
but today
you are more
follow in this direction
trust, your path is clear
 
evensong
the anthem will lead
beckoning
to listen
all you need is to be still
epiphany is home

Photo: Image by Leandro De Carvalho from Pixabay

https://www.napowrimo.net/

https://poets.org/national-poetry-month

The Prompt:
This prompt challenges you to write a poem in the form of a series of
directions describing how a person should get to a particular place.
It could be a real place, like your local park, or an imaginary or unreal
place, like “the bottom of your heart,” or “where missing socks go.”
Fill your poem with sensory details, and make them as wild or intimate
as you like.

For today’s optional prompt, I chose the Shadorma poetic form with two stanzas. Shadorma follows a syllabic meter of 3/5/3/3/7/5, and it has no set rhyme scheme.

I also chose it for its brevity as I wanted to drive home the idea that the direction to a place we all want to arrive– in the case of this poem, home — is NOT complicated and tedious. It is so, for peace, happiness, and love, as all these virtues already exist inside us. I hope you can infer that from the short poem.

Thank you, Maureen, for all the research you put in to offer us ‘poets’ a splendid 30 days of amazing possibilities. I’m so touched by you. You rock.

I salute all the poets/poetesses for showing me how less is more and everlasting. I stood to witness how powerful verbs go a long way, and I’m happy to have touched virtual shoulders with you all. I look forward to seeing you all again for NaPoWriMo2022. (In between, you can find me on Twitter, Instagram as SelmaWrites, or on my website *wink*).

Thank you all for reading, and remember that someone in Japan is thinking of you and wishing you miracles. Until we meet again, I bless you. xoxo, Selma Martin.

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This Post Has 3 Comments

Manja Mexi Mexcessive April 30, 2021 Reply

Thank you kindly, Selma, for this and all the miracles. You have brought much love and light. All well to you.
1. Selma Martin April 30, 2021 Reply
  
  What lovely words you gift me. Be well, my precious.
Dawn D. McKenzie May 2, 2021 Reply

I like how the brevity of your poem does drive the idea that the way home is simple. We just have to look. Or listen. The answer is clear.
Thank you.
I just went to my insta page to make sure I don’t miss anything from you. I’m not very good with instagram yet, but I can only get better 😉
My goal is to post my April poems on there in May (I didn’t have the time to figure out how to do that properly in April, what with doing NaPo and NaNo plus… life!). I better get started!!
Happy miracles! XO