I’ve really been enjoying the monthly poetry challenges over at Fake Flamenco! March’s challenge is to write a shadorma around the theme of light and darkness. I wrote two, because it was fun. 😊
Here’s one for Graham, who I often call “my guiding star.”
You’re my light
A star in the dark
Shining down
On my path
A guide in the deepest night
To bring me home safe
And here’s another one, revisiting a poem I wrote back in 2020, called “Free Will.” It was already sort of composed around a theme of light and shadow, and it was interesting to take a look at it two years later and retool it for a specific poetry form.
We are light
And also darkness
Both reside
In us all
And we choose how they balance
Each moment we live
I’m looking forward to April’s challenge!
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They are both lovely.
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Thanks!
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good for him
and you
Graham is also
my oldest
son
whom i named for the epic Graham Nash
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Two good poems! Thanks so much for being part of the Poetry Challenge. I’ll put both in if there are fewer than 10 participants this month. Gracias.
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Thank you! 🙂 I really love your challenges! I feel like I get to try something new every month.
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That’s really great to hear Katie! Thank you – Muchas gracias.
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This was an interesting form to get stuck into, wasn’t it? And you rose to the task with two poems that speak of life and its challenges and support.
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It was interesting! 21 syllables is definitely more (and less, at the same time) than you think.
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Quite!
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