"Everyday in every way I’m getting better and better" - Emile Coue
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Postscript
thank you
for showing me your vulnerability
i too, am frail mustard
leaf swept by cold wind, gnarled
by doubts and scarfed by guilt
many a night
i too, am needled reed
bent by unanswered prayers
and clumsiness of legs
you remind me to
summon the courage left behind
what has faded, tarnished, passed
is over
i can finally accept what is
weary, tedious, ordinary looking, everyday
me
with a cup of bubbling chocolate
thank you
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This is just awesome... love the metaphor of a mustard leaf... to be able to show our weaknesses is so important I think... maybe it's even utopia to mold weakness into strength.
ReplyDeleteLove the way you wrapped this up. :)
ReplyDelete"me
with a cup of bubbling chocolate"
Also the line, "i too, am frail mustard" ... I'm crazy about that.
~Shawna
A great title, Grace. I love the way 'thank you' tops and tails the poem, and the 'frail mustard leaf'.
ReplyDeleteYup .. the frail mustard leaf is the stand-out phrase in this little gem of a poem but also love 'scarfed by guilt image'.. and the title perfect. Nice work :)
ReplyDeleteI like "gnarled by doubts" - conjured up a great twisting image for me.
ReplyDeleteAcceptance sure is key and let's what will be be
ReplyDeleteacceptance is akin to love, and certainly one must strive to accept, even love one's self before being capable of truly giving love to another. Your poem is lively and rife with metaphor; smile.
ReplyDelete"frail mustard leaf"...very good!
ReplyDeletechocolate is a cure-all ~
ReplyDeleteI love the needled reed bent over by unanswered prayer!
ReplyDeleteI love this! A needled reed - perfect! 🙂
ReplyDeleteNice metaphors: "gnarled
ReplyDeleteby doubts and scarfed by guilt"
I love this, Grace, and boy, can I relate - "failed mustard ", "needled reed" and "clumsiness of legs". Acceptance is akin to hope.
ReplyDeleteIt takes humility to be vulnerable and grateful!
ReplyDeleteHot Chocolate
ReplyDeleteDreams
Hot
Chocolate
Souls Awake..:)
bent over in prayer and frail leaves, i see the metaphors of looking for redemption, then found in a cup of bubbling chocolate, this was really wonderful Grace, the tilt of the poem, like almost falling off an edge and then lifted back up,
ReplyDeleteThe image of 'frail mustard' such an evocative paradox - ends beautifully sweet
ReplyDeleteGrace- this is so lovely. I especially liked 'I too am needled reed'
ReplyDeleteSomething amazing everyday here indeed. I hear a smooth cascade, picturing the thoughts or words being poured out as the thermos pours out the words, and tilting up at the surprise end, "cup of bubbling chocolate - thank you." deep resolutions in the thoughts and feelings that attach, almost as afterthought, to the everyday amazing niceties and affirmations. I can't think of why, but this, of all the poems that had to do with portentious beautiful darkness and light, this prompt, this flowing little poem is bringing tears to my eyes this morning. Thank You.
ReplyDeleteLike your work vey much Grace. It was a joy to visit your blog!
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...rob from www.image-verse.com
There is beauty in you ~ enjoy your cup of bubbling chocolate.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice week Grace
Your metaphors are so delicious.
ReplyDeleteGrace, I just wanted to tell you, I had printed this out and left in a folder in one of my clinic rooms with other poems for patients to peruse while they spent otherwise interminable time waiting for me to see them. Only occasionally do people comment, I guess most of them prefer solitaire to poetry. However, yesterday a sweet patient was holding "Postscript" in her hand and said she was not leaving without it, she loved it deeply and said that the combined vulnerability and kindness of the poem had moved her deeply. I remember when I first read this poem, it brought tears to my eyes, brimming so fully with the (chocolate) mild of human kindness. She also loved January's "Invisible." I direceted her also to your site. Just thought you should know. Lona. :)
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