Friday, December 6, 2019

Poetry Friday: Gratitude

Our challenge this busy season was to write a poem on the theme of gratitude.  I am grateful, every December, for moments of stillness, so I wrote my poem about that.







December

is bustle
and jingle
and jolly.
Decking. 
Beckoning.
Noise pricking
like holly. 

But I am 
Oh, little town!
How still, 
how still.
I crave dark. 
Dreamless.
Wordless 
good will. 

So when
I steal,
in the black 
morning,
barefoot,
to the mute
dawning

Of each
newly-dressed
day, this—
this light
before light,
this breadth

of time 
before time 
must peal 
forth, again—
this moment 
I kneel

to the nothing
we are called
from---
From this 
is all 
the world
to come. 

----Sara Lewis Holmes (all rights reserved)


Links to my fellow poets (as I have them at the moment) are here:

Laura
Tricia

more to come!


Poetry Friday is hosted by our own Tanita Davis.