Last month, I started writing posts from prompts in the Writing Down the Bones Card Deck by Natalie Goldberg, shared with me by my friend Barb Edler of Iowa. I’m continuing this month so that I can experience the entire deck of prompts. Today’s prompt is about what brings peace and what is not peaceful in your day. As a fan of visual poetry, I chose the form of the breathing wave today the way it may appear on a screen in a medical office (scroll fast and you can see the wave appear in the line breaks.
Where Peace Lives
I’m up at 5 a.m. writing
most days, even today – a
weekend I’ve longed for
after months of long
trips home to clean out
Dad’s house. Peace awaits
~ coffee, silence, cool gray screen
backlit keyboard, eye masks ~ where
the meditations of mind and memory
converge without to-do lists
and deadlines and data
keeping the pulse in
check, breathing
slowly, deeply
where I belong
before the clock
kicks in, governing
routine like a thief of
time, getting in the way
of the relaxed pace of
living without all the
demands awaiting
outside these
doors in the
real world
I find my
peace
here
…..
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