Getting the Rhythm
Compassion
wants only practice:
Extend hands,
open heart.
Repeat your rhythmic pattern.
Hear it echo back.
© 2011 Maureen E. Doallas
____________________I'm participating in the #Trust30 challenge, an online writing/reflection initiative for which a prompt is posted daily. All of the prompts to date are here.
Today's poem, in Shadorma form (six lines of no or no set rhyme following the syllabic pattern 3-5-3-3-7-5), is my response to the 10th prompt from author Eric Handler:
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is burning deep inside of you? If you could spread your personal message RIGHT NOW to 1 million people, what would you say?
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My responses to prompts to date, all in the form of poems, are:
What You Imagine
Let Me Tell You
Unreal
Words to Live By
Birthplace
Answer in Time
Giving Meaning to Others
Zigzag
Fifteen Minutes to Count Down
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6 comments:
I love this short poem! It is both soft and powerful and the ending a resounding crescendo. Beautiful Maureen!
This reads like a song from the heart.
It echoes like waves rolling into shore, fanning out, pulling back and moving in again.
Beautiful!
Yes, oh my heart, yes!
"Words to Live By" is one of my favorites of yours--it's very YOU.
ripples of echos
beautiful
beautiful
beautiful
yes! to all of the above ... the questions that come through this challenge are challenging indeed, aren't they?
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