and the
light is noticeably different.
The weather
isn’t.
My soul is
ready for spring
and the
birds are ready,
singing,
waiting.
Wood smoke
in the air reminds me of barbecues,
and snow
clouds topped with sunlight,
like Sedona
hills in summer,
make me
feel alive.
With the
new year
the future
seems wide open,
but there
are still seventeen days till the cross quarter,
sixty-two
till the Equinox.
Something
is about to happen.
I’m ready,
waiting.
I really am waiting! Outcast Shadows is being
ebook-ified as we speak, and the back cover is being sketched. All the other
files are totally formatted and ready, and I'm chomping at the bit to upload
them!
On the poetry front, I'm contemplating doing two projects this year. One, related to the above poem, is to write a free-verse poem for each month, sort of encapsulating my feelings. I'm very attuned to the changes in light, which unfortunately makes me ready for the next season about a month before it actually occurs (like that subtle shift in the sky in August that tells you fall is on it's way? You know the one). That being said, I really do enjoy every month except January, which has no holidays and no greenery, but this year I'm sort of taking it as it is: a time of waiting and readying oneself for the year to come. And as far as the other months, well, you'll see my feeling in poetic form later.
My other project, inspired by my poet friend Kaye Spivey, is to try reading some of my poems aloud and posting the videos. Some of my more out-there poems, like "Dust Witch", I feel would benefit from a read-aloud. So look for those at some point, and await with bated breath next week's post which will hopefully involve giveaways and preorders and all that good stuff!
On the poetry front, I'm contemplating doing two projects this year. One, related to the above poem, is to write a free-verse poem for each month, sort of encapsulating my feelings. I'm very attuned to the changes in light, which unfortunately makes me ready for the next season about a month before it actually occurs (like that subtle shift in the sky in August that tells you fall is on it's way? You know the one). That being said, I really do enjoy every month except January, which has no holidays and no greenery, but this year I'm sort of taking it as it is: a time of waiting and readying oneself for the year to come. And as far as the other months, well, you'll see my feeling in poetic form later.
My other project, inspired by my poet friend Kaye Spivey, is to try reading some of my poems aloud and posting the videos. Some of my more out-there poems, like "Dust Witch", I feel would benefit from a read-aloud. So look for those at some point, and await with bated breath next week's post which will hopefully involve giveaways and preorders and all that good stuff!
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