LOOK INTO THE FUTURE
Into the future, I stare
pondering
its
vast
unchartedness
pondering
a
new
normal.
Pondering,
I stare into the future.
© 2020 Carol Varsalona. All rights reserved.
This poem is part of a skinny poem series. Read more at Beyond LiteracyLink.
This month we featured three challenges from My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry & Speaking Your Truth by Patrice Vecchione:
"These are the Hands": Write about the place that empathy has in your life—a time you offered compassion to another or a time it was freely given to you.
"Lost and Found": Write about a time you lost something or somebody.
And "Into the Future: Take Yourself There Now": Write about that place called future, as you imagine it; peer into its unknown terrain, and see what you find.
Click on the challenge titles above for more details about each one and/or visit our end-of-month celebration to read other poems contributed. Submit your poem by 5:00 pm on Thursday, April 30th, to be entered in a random drawing for a copy of this outstanding guide to writing poetry, courtesy of Seven Stories Press.
This poem carries much power in its simplicity, Carol. I think it works really well as a standalone! That elusive "new normal" is something so many of us are trying to capture, but the horizon keeps changing before our eyes.
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