Today is the final day of the November PAD Chapbook Challenge. Or is it? I'll post a wrap-up on the challenge tomorrow, but today is technically the final day of the initial poeming for this challenge. We still have all of December to collect and revise our November poems, slim our manuscripts down to 10-20 pages of poetry, and submit them (to me!). Again, I'll share all the details tomorrow--or click here to see the basic guidelines.
For today's prompt, write a lessons learned poem. If you've been writing to a certain theme, this poem might take a moment to step back and reflect on the BIG PICTURE. If you're like me and couldn't quite stick to one theme throughout the month, then this poem might be about real lessons learned (either this month or during your entire lifetime). Or you might just write a poem about going to school. Or to work. Or this blog. Or something else.
Lessons Learned
Everyday the body will amaze me.
Or, is it time
The continuities of the real
what day of the week is it?
the sock stays where it is dropped
the bulb pushes up through the ground
the smile in the photos stay the same
and yet this sense
that somehow
I could not die
that I will be the first to make it
to be able to walk through a moment
slip in sideways
right through it
into that dimension
which is right here
hovering like an answer
a glove for a hand
a star on a branch
a lesson that could be learned
but the walls of the infinite
close and spit me back out
like a seed
that needs to split and sprout
and root and take years to grow
and more years to grow
and still more
that can't talk
can only speak in leaves
can only, in seasons, cipher
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