Today’s poem for The Stafford Challenge is a rondine, a 12-line poem with two stanzas – seven lines in the first stanza, and five in the second. It does not have to have rhyme scheme, and the first word becomes the only word on lines 7 and 12. Each line has 8-10 syllables in all other lines.
Purging
purging baggage collected through the years
notebooks, dishes, clothing, books, heirlooms
so I don't end up with a pile of things
anchoring my mind and body
holding onto stuff without purpose
holding valuables hostage
purging
because nothingness wins: less IS more
more life, more time, more freedom to live
more present, less past, more future
releasing is therapeutic
purging
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