Poetry Friday - Love Is In The Air

    Molly Hogan hosts our Poetry Friday today HERE at her blog, Nix The Comfort Zone. Do not miss reading her "Artist's Prayer" of gratitude for her "small cup of life". Thank you, Molly! It is beautiful!

    

 My most recent found heart rock!

          I am writing a poem every day in February with the group celebrating Laura Shovan's birthday. This is the ninth year! Each day one of us offers a prompt and everyone responds with a poem. This year, Laura has chosen the theme of the "body". Each day the prompts shared have been amazingly thought-provoking but the poems are written even more so. It's a joy to read others' words full of heartfelt feelings. Today, I'm sharing my response to Marilyn Garcia's prompt, My Skin, a song by Lizzo. You can watch it HERE. There's little better on Valentine's Day than to celebrate one's skin and everyone else's, too! Here is what I wrote:

How To Be In Our World

 

Go out into the world

some afternoon to find 

ways to honor the skin

of others, the dark and light,

the in-between. Go! Mutter

into the wind, “I like my skin,

and yours, and yours and yours!” 

Go home to think

how the blessed bounty of humans

needs noticing, then a listening

to all who live around us.

Spread out your feelings

in the grass; one by one

remember ‘who’ and ‘how’

and ‘why’. 

Let them stay awhile,

as you feel the stretch

of  ‘when’ and ‘where’ they rooted,

‘what’ it means to you now.

Can you celebrate? Not yet,

but a soft tug means you’re no longer

an old fool.

 

Linda Baie ©

           HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY WITH A BRIEFER MESSAGE FROM AN ANTIQUE VALENTINE

The whole world

   loves a lover

So they say—I hope

        it’s true,

‘Cause then the world’s

     in love with me

‘Cause I’m in love

           with you.