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For My Sister and Brother  Poets

Mornings, again refreshed, I wield up a 
sledgehammer to strike the stone walls of 

the confinement of my assigned nativity...then
 seek to emigrate from those Purposes...to go

settle, an immigrant, in the more fertile territory 
of Meanings, trusting a disclosure of my birthright

as a citizen among the searching population at 
the address of Poetry — twin to the Soul — more


 fertile for vines from the heart, more welcoming to 
the orchards of Imagination, always ripe with songs.

Today’s afternoon was spent planting a grove of pink
dogwood  saplings and sapphire iris bulbs nearby...

so someday they will bask in light, feeling winds 
and  us, too, walking past in admiration,sprinkling

our words of appreciation across the earth over their 
roots.  Birds sound dearly above as the dusk nears.

I work until the first sight of winking Venus...then, 
take pages and pens with a flashlight under my tent 

of sheets revealing on the net, a broad company  
of my sister and brother poets, recounting — each

one of us — the full scenes of our day’s graced hours, 
by words to one another, from pains to joys, all-

reaching, from solitary into community, supporting, 
learning...expressive, in wonder, hoping to know

the sounding rise of the Voice within, and ever
 thankful for a promise of a flight on eagle’s wings.

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(c)sally Young eslinger 2/5/2021
Thanks be to God and to PoetrySoup, all of you

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