So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Poem: June 18, 2019

Wasting Time

It's all there and needs doing-
the presentation slide deck, the calls
and emails, the car, the basement walls.

So much of life builds upon itself.
Do one task and create three more,
complete a job and there's a void

that we feel we need to fill,
some restless part of us that won't
be still, cannot be indefinite.

Even at the beach, I plan and
divide my time between sand sculptures,
and wading a bit, and searching for shells.

Even resting is on the agenda,
something to be completed, a box
in need of a check mark or X.

We've evolved so far, we fill
our lives with foolishness, we pace
the spaces where once we hunted food.


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