Poem: WRITE

July 12, 2013

-WRITE-

He says

Write to remember

Like I could write it all

Start with one thought

Pen to page

Spray can to wall

Write the bad ink

Write what You think

Write the daydreams

Write the ugly scenes

Write regrets from childhood

‘til you can step back and heal them

Write the tones you love,

‘til your eyes reveal them

Write away the notes you missed

Write the boys and girls you

kissed

Write the energy that has no words
only sound

only a letter
only vowels
like "Ahhh" and "Oh"

high note to low

Write the marvelous and the terrible

The ones you want
who never show

Write what happens

Write forgiveness

Write junk-crowded shop on Pine St.

stuffed with potential, broken memories, and suspicions

Write the doubt

they made you feel
like you’d break everything and steal

if they turned their backs for a minute

if they let you revel in it

Then write how you chose
not
to feel that….

Write what happened in the aftermath,

You bought lavender yarn so your mother

can save babies

by knitting hats

Write maybes

Write connections

Share these at your discretion.

Write the lies you imagine people tell

Write when they're "telling the truth"
too
well.

Write a vision of Heaven,

Write your version
of Hell.
Write daydreams.

Write the way nothing changes when you're depressed

when you're worn down and saturated
with

loneliness

Write how the very air around you

can feel

too tight,

then,

Write how everything
shifts in the light--

Write Light.

Write the night

Write the terror out of nightmares

and security into fright

When everything feels wrong

Write just

what is

Right.

Write daydreams

Write fullness when you’re empty

Write few words when you hear many

Write why you know that you

are always blessed with plenty

Write the meaning of completeness, High Priestess spinning ministry

Write daydreams

Write the way the sun seems when you’re sad and when you’re happy

Write like you’re clapping

Write as if you’re rapping a future generation’s history

Write the way you think you wish they’d look back and see it and maybe

It’ll happen

Then and

There

Now and

Everywhere.

Write how anything can happen anywhere.

Write the words of the voiceless

Write the lives of the lifeless

Write the way that freedom feels when you let go of all that’s worthless

Write how birds fly home in summers

Write full pages without number

Write

Write pregnant women smoking

Write bikers without helmets

Write the insanity of risk-taking that makes me ask

Who is to blame for this?

Write the improvement of your Aunt Judy

Write how humans have no limits.

Write health, wealth, and good fortune

Write how exercise makes you young again

Write how technology saves us, and makes us crazy,

How it can support us, and how it can make us lazy.

Write the gendered assumptions

That people are just women or men.

Write the can’t-breathe-stale-smoke oppression

in your throat again
Write how the whistle or the bell sounds

when it calls you home

or sends you off again.

Write the tiger-lily summer when you lost your high school friend.

Write your sadness and excitement

at how beginnings bring on ends.

Write daydreams

Write rain walks and park talks

silent subways, lands of make believe.

Write as though you had no time

Write your way beyond the rhyme

Write the sunrise

and the moonshine

Write the life you haven’t led

Write the cobwebs out of your head

Write of everything you needed that

you were never fed.

Write the cycles of love

The patterns of stars

The rhythm of tides

What life’s like on Mars

Then come back to Earth.

Write the composition of Pride

Write the directions to every

Buried treasure you find.

Write the trials of your life

Write the essence of your mind

Write.

Write the recipes your grandmother knew by heart

Write the questions you haven’t asked

Write the ice right off your heart

Write the world the way strangers you meet want it to be

Write what they hear; write what they see.

Write shoes onto children’s feet.

Write a story of peace, in our time, peace,

Write.

Write healthy birth into hopeless space

Write care upon apathy’s face

Write understanding where graffiti cries

Write love songs, sonnets, work songs, lullabies

Write.

Write like everything matters

Write overflowing platters

For people who never had to worry for what to eat

And for those whose meals for years

have been given in sympathy on the street

Write new answers to ancient riddles and tests

Write interpretations never considered

Write your lucky guess

Write loud and bold

Write sweet and soft

Keep writing when the train stops

Write

‘til you

get off.

CBF July 2013