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 :)

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Poem: December 16, 2021

Renaissance

It’s true we have created

terrible machines

that reduce us

to two-dimensional 

fun house reflections

of ourselves.


And we have lived

frivolously and out

of step with our world,

so that our world

seems to push us

in hard ways.


And clearly we fail

one another, and so, 

carry our shadows

and sadness and shame,

like Marley’s chains,

scratching heavily

behind us.


But I hear the whisper

we make, this ocean

of us. I hear the sound

that aches below.

And I imagine our waking.

I imagine our waking.


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