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Paper Poetry’s January 2025 prompt
Arming Ourselves with Poetry
It’s our shield and our sword
shed the casings that once bound us
unfurl bold wings in the dawn
the possibilities are endless
when each day we’re reborn
Greetings to our Paper Poetry friends and welcome to 2025!
It seems like a blink ago that we were heralding in 2024 and now here we are, a year later, blinking into the dawn of 2025.
Part of me blinks in disbelief — where did the year go?
Another part of me blinks in relief — I’m grateful to have made it thus far.
I look back at 2024 and think — wow! what a year that was! It felt like a blink going forward, but in retrospect, it was a year packed to the hilt.
Packed with the lovely, the ugly, the good and the bad. Stuff that made our souls sing and stuff that made our hearts weep. Things we could see coming and things that took us by surprise, shock and awe. So much to process, accept, reject, immortalize.
At times it became too much.
Those were the times to draw the blinds on the world, to retreat into the sanctuary of self and small things.
And that’s exactly what we did for our poetry prompt in December — we stepped away from the overwhelm of a world on steroids, hunkered down into minutiae, and discovered for ourselves what Jim Jarmusch meant when he said, ‘the beauty of life is in small details, not in big events’.
Please take some time to sample the wonderful poetry we received in response to the prompt —
❂ A Crateful Gift by 🄿ixel 🄵loyd
❋ I Keep the TV On by Shubham Kumar
❂ Confusing Confucius by A. Gee
❋ Am I Dreaming, or Am I Living in My Dream? by shiv writes
❂ Blowfly by John Hansen PAL
❋ Cracked Patterns by Priyanka Sinha
❂ My Big Door Is a Peephole by Shubham Kumar
❋ Seven Solitary Haiku by A.H. Mehr
❂ A Tiny Bulb of High Importance by Eaflevin
❋ The Journey of a Tear by Shubham Kumar
❂ Spectrum of the Sky by EFHL
❋ The Mosaic Pine by EFHL
❂ In the Making by Suntonu Bhadra
❋ Webs Within Webs by EFHL
❂ The Breath of Bees by Tree Langdon
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