Merely Day By Day

I t's National Poetry Month. I will be posting a poem each day. No theme. I'm just going to follow the spark each day, wherever I might find it. It's bound to be messy.  It's Poetry Friday - and National Poetry Month - so I'm trying to jump back into pressing publish on this blog each day this month. Each Friday, I hope to join the Poetry Friday Community, where I've been lurking quite often as they're always inspiring. Make sure you stop by Reflections on the Teche where Margaret Simon is kindly hosting today. Today's poem was inspired by Major Jackson from The Slowdown Show . Each day, Jackson shares a poem on the podcast after sharing a short essay. I enjoy listening to the way poetry pushes us to think about life and the complexities of living. In Jackson's essay on the poem Future Me by Lena Moses-Schmitt, he asserts, "Occasionally, writing poetry is also an offering to the future: poem as a container of time, whose language signifies th...