PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

I’m not only grateful today

but I’ve been forever pleased

That my dreams have been the source 

of so many of my memories

Today I’m grateful that to be on the same page as Elliot Page

and wish more people could see the world through his/their eyes…

“Everyone deserves to feel love” he/they says

“Equally

without shame

and without compromise”

Today I’m grateful for butterflies and luna moths…

how they easily deceive the naked eye….

How when we see them for a moment we believe…

there are flowers that can fly.

Today I’m grateful for understanding the power of silence…

and how in my life it plays an important role…

For even though these words I write often delight my heart and mind…

It’s silence that delights my soul.

Today I’m grateful for the journey I am making

on this spinning orb through hurtling through space…

because as the native nations understood:

Between who I once was

and who I am becoming

is where the dance of life takes place

Today I’m grateful for understanding…

(and I can talk or write about this at length)

that the gentleness of our spirit

will always be…our greatest strength.

Every day when I wake up

I’m grateful for the happiness waking up evokes…

I’m not only grateful that I woke to a new day

but in this political climate…

I am also grateful to be woke.

Today I’m grateful for knowing 

what native nation people have long professed

That each of us is put here in this time and place

to decide the future of humankind.

Did you think you were put here for something less?

Today I’m grateful for the poet Rumi’s understanding of singing birds

from the largest raven…to the smallest bobolink…

I want to sing like the birds sing…he said

Never worrying about who is hearing me

or worrying about what they think.