For the Boneyard Arts Festival 2015, the CU Poetry Group facilitated a community poem at Jane Addams Bookshop. We set up an easel and invited people to read the most recent line and add a line. A big Thank You to everyone who participated and to Jane Addams Bookshop for all their support during a great weekend of poetry.
Here is the final, unedited product:
Community Poem 4-11-2015
In the garden of the community of books
A girl drops her thoughts like pebbles into a well
She whispers out her fears and dwells on long-forgotten regrets
tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Let us not live for tomorrow but for today
There’s only us, there’s only this –
So we might as well kiss
Since we’re feelin’ the bliss!
on this lovely & wondrous spring day…
passers-by shed their winter shells
nuts she said
hot day, cold morning, sweating
I just need to make it though the first 24 hours
Eyes closed running blind in a forest of regret
The future is cold with drops of blood in my sweat
My heart a frozen tundra bathed in the light of your soul
And still this bouquet of yellow flowers remain
chilled by the cold wind blowing from the sound
Covering what is hidden just below the ground
My veins, like roots fill and cycle through and head toward better settings of the sun
The rising of the moon fills me with the anticipation of trouble