Making Bread

Making Bread

Knowing begins

when the page turns.

Peace  comes

while the age burns

a thousand threads

across  the loom;

there's a luck that roofs the room

against the rain that pulls the wheat

into our hands from soil to bread

and back, complete.

~April 2013

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Challenge: Encouragement

Susie Clevinger asks us to "write the words to bring light into your own life or that of another. Whatever the struggle bring the verses to lift the spirit." While this is not normally much in my wheelhouse, I actually happened to be thinking tonight as the rain lashed the house how very lucky I am to be here in this world, breathing, thinking, doing what I love, mostly.

Image: More flour-underneath, by grongar on flick'r

I have slightly manipulated this photo as allowed under the creative commons attribution only license, by cropping it and rendering it in black and white. You can view the original here.

Yeast of Eden

Yeast of Eden

(A Shadorma)

Rising high

we're slapped down into

the oven,

rolled in earth,

clods shaken off like sugar,

cargo'd naughts of fate.

April 2011

Posted for Poetry Form Monday at the inimitable OneStopPoetry

Annie Welch is this week's host and she explains the form thus:
"The shadorma is similar to both haiku and tanka, yet it is not of Japanese descent.  It is a 6 lined poem (sestet) of Spanish descent with no set rhyme scheme. The shadorma is a syllabic poem with the following structure: 3/5/3/3/7/5."


Image: Whole Wheat Bread Dough Rising - Donna Diegel
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