National Poetry Month: Just Tomorrow (23 of 30)

It'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. 

Today seemed a good day to try a Golden Shovel poem. 

"the past is the past,

and the present is what your life is,

and you are capable"

    - Mary Oliver, from Mornings at Blackwater (Devotions, p. 102)

I'm still learning the

lessons taught by the past.

The noise is

deafening, the

missteps of past

days replaying over and

over until the

day we step fully into the present,

both feet planted firmly. This is

the day we decide what

matters, when the noise in our head

turns to song. Life

begins in this moment. It is

here we fly and

trust our steps moving steadily forward. You

have been ready all your life. You are

capable.

© Cathy L. Mere, 2023