Day 31

Now (what?)

This is it.

This is the end of our May journey of poetry writing.

I’m so grateful for you! Thank you for reading, for sitting in this space with me.

What has it been like for you this month? What are you learning about yourself, about the world?

Even though this series is coming to an end, poetry never does. There will be more poems to come later, and I might surprise my paid subscribers with extra poetry prompts down the road—stay tuned!

I chose all of the prompts we’ve had this month long before we started this journey, so I love that today’s prompt is the word now.

My poem is below. I’ll be taking a little break after this, but can’t wait to get back to more essays this summer.

I’ve heard that phrase

be here now

so many times,

and I forget how

powerful it really is.

Be here now.

Not

be here tomorrow

be here next week

be here later

be here when you can

those just won’t do,

because we sometimes

forget how much it means

to sit still

without the weight

of it all

taking over.

Be here now,

our soul begs.

Be here now,

our kids ask.

Be here now,

our partner sighs.

Be here now,

Mother Nature gently demands.

The power is

now.

It away was.