Tried something a bit different with this week’s reverse poem. It actually covers the past two weeks. When I put together last weeks verses, I felt it needed more. So now I’ve included those short snippets in italics as background thoughts around the longer verses from this past week’s roundup. I think it works. It took a little more effort but it speaks to me of life right now in general.

Crazy as things may be right now, there are always flickers of beauty, splendor…magnificent. We can curse the dark clouds when they come billowing in or we can embrace the cool refreshing rain. It’s our choice. We have opportunities every day, several times a day in fact, where we can choose light over darkness, gratefulness over bitterness, goodness over evil, truth over lies, kindness over hatefulness. And especially this past week I have been keenly aware of the ways nature encourages us to look deeper. To find treasure in the midst of weeds. If not this, then we’re just taking up space and wasting air.

Choose beauty, light, love and truth my friends. It’s there…I promise! 🥰

A ReVerse Poem ~ 27 August 2023

like heavy fog settles in the hollows
     in a rush, longing for
dusk settles the dross
     you’re thinking…it’s worth
twenty-thousand serendipities to savor
     or two crows
when gaslights endlessly flicker
     …who saved who?
where swelling creeks giggle over rocks when it rains
     love, kindness,
     before hatred…trauma 
monsters don’t hide in closets, under beds, or in the shadows these days
     they assured me
there is always an element of sweetness in the bitter

~kat

A ReVerse poem (a practice I started many years ago) is a summary poem with a single line lifted from each entry of a collection of work over a particular timeframe and re-penned in chronological order as a new poem. Unlike a collaborative poem, the ReVerse features the words of one writer, providing a glimpse into their thoughts over time.