Visualization Poetry from Year of The Poet (Vol 15)

Featured in The Year of the Poet March, 2015 Volume 15.

The Year of the Poet, Poetry Posse, Inner Child Press, Kimberly Burnham

Something Suspicious

A friend diagnosed / something “suspicious” / ominous follow up tests / loom knowing the power / of positive thinking / of relaxation / of guided imagery / visualization, I write / a poem just for her / for the life she will have / after it turns out / nothing is wrong

I write as if we are / the future looking back / the day she is told / she was healthy / nothing to worry about

That day came soon / after I wrote the poem / I like to think / in the precious light of life / my poem affects her future

There is power / in being able to see / your future / shimmering positive / saying, “worrying is like / praying for what you don’t want.” / what do you pray?

Of course, Mark Twain said / I know that worrying works / for nothing / I have ever worried / about has come true.

Parrots, what we say matters by Sid Balachandran on Unsplash

Visions of Delight

Before I turned 80 / before my eyes had healed / when the world was bleak and grey / Yes, I remember it all changed / my eyes seeing / the pink of the neighborhood rose garden / orange tulips late in the spring / that Fall smelling the fragrant dahlias / puffed open by time, water, sunshine / and the hand of something magical in the universe

How the swelling around my eyes / disappeared in the moonlight / full outside my window / remember how fast my ribs healed / bone cells reaching out for one another / sharing calcium and oxygen / healing nutrients flowed so easily

As I drove my car out of the garage / clean and ordered / just the way I keep it / and the trip up north / with delightful friends and a niece / how they listened to my stories / looked into my eyes / I felt seen / they honoring my wisdom / I saw my strength through their eyes

Clarity rolling in like an ocean breeze / and the time I walked in the sand / feeling the warm, wet, gleaming grains of quartz / then sitting under the blue beach umbrella / reading a fascinating novel / about an Egyptian woman who succeeded / in changing her world / with her words and the way she walked

And I saw my way clear / adapting new technologies with ease / connecting me to a whole new world / making me young again / delighting in the energy / breaking the barriers / creating the flow / in the Spring thaw / when all is alive new again in the world.

Beauty vision recovery by Ryan Booth on Unsplash

A Sunday River Rich and Satisfying

In joy / surrounded / by those I am devoted to / and loved by / I truly see / what I have created / for myself / for them / for one and all

A planet playground / teaming abundance / red hibiscus and golden wattle / fragrant with eucalyptus / a place for the playfulness of children / the community nurturing them / as they in turn / love up those with wisdom / acquired through years

I see my hand in this past / pointing step by step to now / creating myself / with so many others / in a diverse interconnected universe / bubbling out of the melding / time and space / love and laughter / work and play / till now when all has become one / in the peace and beauty

I laugh.

Originally published in The Year of The Poet at http://www.innerchildpress.com/the-year-of-the-poet.php on March 1, 2015.