Lillian is hosting Poetics in the dVerse Poets Pub ~ it's about Forests!!
[ Sending healing energy Lillian's way ]
David Bruyndonckx ~ Unsplash
Twelve / soft in the bones
but braver than I knew
a borrowed sleeping bag
zippered tight / my cocoon
spread over pine needles
resting on damp earth
A circle of girls / not quite strangers
not quite sisters / until the camp fire was lit
crackling like a living thing / never fully gone
burning low and steady / counselors laughing
speaking in voices that made safety feel easy
like it had always been there
In morning smoke / pancakes crisped at edges
sweetened with syrup and smoky joy
i didn't ask what lay beyond the woods
i didn't need to / it would wait
it would always wait
And when i was ready
i would walk into the forest
not fearful / not quite fearless
but filled with something strong
just beginning to name itself