#9 Poem-A-Day Challenge: First Write

For all of my life, I have taken great solace in writing. Taking pen to paper and getting lost in where my heart and soul carried me. Over the years, writing has been my saving grace. My therapy. My lover. My confidant. Writing has never failed me. Poetry has given me voice a way to speak my love language, pain language, joy language, discontent language, happiness language.

This Poem-A-Day Challenge has delighted me to no end. Mostly in part due to the inspiration of someone I care a great deal about as a way to celebrate his birthday in a very personal intimate way. Sure I can buy him something, but words as gifts, as prayers as love is the most divine gift I know to give. It is a way to share myself physically and intellectually and spiritually. The other reason is that I am profoundly joyous crafting a poem every day. It's like I've been in a deep sleep and just awoken. Yes, I've crafted poems sporadically for folks, birthdays, weddings, engagements, celebrations of all sorts.  But this daily commitment has been so joyous. I look forward to it, listening for the words to come.

First Write
write now
write later
write around
write up
write down
write back
write forward
write more never less
write full
write empty
write fast

write slow
write love
write hate
write me
write you

Babz Rawls Ivy 3/9/16

#8 Poem-A-Day Challenge: In The Loveliest Of Times

In the loveliest of times

we were becoming friends

expressing.

revealing. evolving.

enchanted

I knew parting was

close at hand

inevitable

In the loveliest of times

long conversations felt like you were

next door or closer

like whispers in the night

You didn’t believe our goodbye

was possible. But I knew. I

began to prepare since hello.

Goodbye wrapped in

Change

Choices

Challenges

How did we meet? I can’t

remember really

How will we say goodbye?

I don’t know really

In the loveliest of times we

were always saying

goodbye

Babz Rawls Ivy 3/8/2016

gif: Dorothy Dandridge as teacher Jane Russell in Bright Road

Poem-A-Day Challenge: Love's Astronaut

I orbit your universe
exploring the possibility of landing

testing the
atmosphere

I go where I am invited

I rotate in accordance to the
heart's desire...

Often the alien, I know full well
Love is
the final frontier

I am the gravitational pull of unexpected magic

Create a safe place for me to
land
and
I
might
just.

Babz Rawls Ivy 3/7/16

#6 Poem-A-Day: Love Me In The Now

There are stories

that go ON
                         Forever

There are stories that
last
                          A few moments

I do not have an eternity with you
                       
                           I do have love that lasts
                           for as long as I have breath

And really having breath is an eternity

Do not concern yourself with my mortality

                           You waste time with trying to know the hour

When I go it will be like a cool breeze blowing across your brow

                             Love me in the now.

Tomorrow is a long held dream.

Babz Rawls Ivy 3/6/15

Photo credit: smoulderingcloseup.jpg

Poem-A-Day Challenge: Love Truly

There is no unrequited love

I love you.
You love me.

understood. reciprocated.

There is no togetherness
or not togetherness.

I wish you well with whomever you choose.

There is no unrequited anything between us

There is only love

truly.

Babz Rawls Ivy
3/5/16

photo credit natureofhumankind.com

Poem-A-Day Challenge: Messages

Messages

I 
am 
actually,
grudgingly, 

despite 
my 
best 
efforts...

seeing
the 
magic.

Curses!

Babz Rawls Ivy 3/4/16

Poem-A-Day Challenge: The Kindest Heart Of The Day

On some days you are the light

the safety net

the path

the pillow

the very clear voice for my very busy mind

On all days you are the friend

the confidant

the cheerleader

the willing listening ear

And on those odd days of destruction and despair

you are the kindest heart of the day

Babz Rawls Ivy 3/3/16