Since last July, I’ve been writing weekly poetry prompts for Tweetspeak Poetry. It’s been a fun project, and I thought I’d start posting the links to them here in case anyone would like to try their hand at the genre.
This week’s prompt has to do with noticing the world around us, asking questions about why things are the way they are, and finally, looking for beauty in what is broken. I think the trick is to keep noticing, and to keep asking questions.
I wrote this one in the downtown Starbucks while Hadley and Harper worked on their math homework. We don’t have these days much anymore as our afternoons are filled with soccer and swimming and piano and dance. Something tells me though, that they wouldn’t be super excited to hang out with mom in the coffee shop as they used to when I promised them chocolate milk, pulled out books and coloring, and they did their work while I puttered along with my grad school work, each of us taking note in our own way of the world around us – not just trying to make sense of it, but pointing out some beauty in it as well.
I’m proud of the lives they’re living, but I miss those days – two honest bits of beauty I’ll choose to hold on to and reckon with.
Find the post here.
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