Poetry Month 2023: April 2nd
“Writing is the evident artifact of some kind of change.”
Writing Poetry
Poem-A-Day from Poets.org
On April 2nd, 2023
I read “Youth and Age” by Kahlil Gibran as the sun set in the village of Gates Mills.
I napped on the couch, falling asleep to a metta loving kindness meditation from Waking Up.
The poem speaks of then and now - and resonated as I approach 50 years old this November.
Where nostalgia seems paradoxical yearning for youth’s pain and uncertainty, age brings wisdom and patient perspective of the seasons of life.
This line speaks to me more than most: “But now I know that in winter there is re-birth and renewal, and that the wind tears the old raiment to cloak her with a new raiment woven by the spring.”
I, too, abhorred the bitter cold of barren winters in gray Cleveland, Ohio of my childhood.
My birthday would feel like a seismic shift in mood as the autumnal leaves scattered in the wind, leaving tall maples stretching to the sky like skeleton etchings on a sullen canvas.
The springs renewal of the setting sun summons me now to stroll outside before dusk settles and darkness descends early in this river valley.
