Worky Work Week Sanity Saver (Day 6): Poetry

This poem, "Meditation at Five Islands" by Dave Lucas, feels perfect to me. I keep reading it, wishing I had written it and feeling, in a strange way, like I did. The best writing does that: kicks up a spark of recognition inside of you and then spreads out in a warm glow of knowing. I think the best poetry (and prose) feels familiar and fresh at the same time. Lucas's poem was published in the September/October 2012 issue of Orion magazine, which is a beautiful publication with the mission "to inform, inspire, and engage individuals and grassroots organizations in becoming a significant cultural force for healing nature and community."

Meditation at Five Islands

There is no help for it after all,
nothing to keep one's unlived lives
from dragging their heavy chains
along the bottom of the sea,
full fathom five and so forth.
The heart wants what it wants,
which is everything....

[read the whole poem here]

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