Tag: Missouri

Arc ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #404 & NaPoWriMo 2025

This arc through space and time
Thirty poems yet to write
But after this
Just twenty-nine

Some days
The words may come
As if a gift

Some days a labour
Subtler beauties missed

But still the promise: words to come

Where it starts
There it ends
Then we must
Begin again

Circle
Unbroken
The round
Complete

Then round
And round
And round
Again

Until I step
Upon a path
Some may say
Leads me astray

Stars and planes
Streaked through the sky
While camera film
Made green the night
Doubled in the pond below

And o’er it all
Arced golden steel
To celebrate
The westward move

A derelict sign
On this derelict highway
No more home made pie

We are creatures of grace
I see it everywhere

In the way we move
On the dance floor
In the way we act
In times of tragedy
In the things we build
As monuments to significance

I try to remind myself of this
In the low moments
When I feel anything but grace
Anything but graceful

My reflection
In your eyes
I see myself
More truly

I work hard
With intention
To express
And create

Heed artistry
Inscribe wisdom
Apply passion

Time seems so merciless
And malicious

Until I look again
And see the beauty
In the dilapidated
The strength
In the distressed
The resilience
In the rusted

I am certain
No one knew
The fate which had been wrought
When the first arches were erected

Or was it rather
A prophecy?

On the other side
The great beyond
Beckons with
Adventure’s promise