Saying yes to too many things at once
is like eating dark chocolate truffles one
after another after another. The first
is infused with wild raspberry, which leads
to a caramel truffle with fleur de sel, which leads
to two smooth champagne truffles, which leads
to a tummy ache, bittersweet. My calendar
has a tummy ache. Its numbered squares
are filled in with rows of rich invitations…
a book club infused with Louise Erdrich
and Sauvignon Blanc, a meditation retreat
handcrafted with extra silence, a trail run
through aspen groves filled with silky light.
How could I pass on any of these delights?
Saying yes to too many things at once
is like crossing a remote border at midnight,
and though your pulse races with the thrill,
you have no idea if you will ever know
what home means again. Saying yes
to too many things at once is in fact
a disguise for saying no. No to openness,
no to spontaneity, no to whatever surprise
might have found its way into the vacant
possibility of that deliciously empty square.
Indeed! One can even book too many live music venues … precluding “deliciously empty” evenings. Great poem here.
Oh yeah .
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perfect metaphor! Thanks…
Ah yes thank you, Carol love, r
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From: “comment-reply@wordpress.com” Reply-To: Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 12:19 PM To: Rosemerry Trommer Subject: [A Hundred Falling Veils] Comment: “Positively”
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Curious! This is one of 30 notices received overnight for posts on your blog – dated over past couple of years – some I’ve seen when they were new (like this one) and some I have not seen before … it’s like I’ve been given a chapbook of your poems! Positively delightful, and yet … what on earth triggered this flood?
Oh!!! Now I get what happened!! I have been unable to figure out why some people have been telling me that they received 37 emails of poems … i thought it was mail chimp!!! Thank you, Jazz!!! You helped me figure out a mystery! It was my wordpress site sending all the emails!!! And here’s what happened: I had made all these poems private because I had entered them in contests, and when they didn’t get accepted, last night I marked them as public. And that act must have triggered the notices … i had no idea it would do that!!! thank you for helping me figure out what happened!!!!
WordPress has all sorts of “secrets” – I recently attended a local tutorial and learned that I’m doing categories all “wrong” … tho personally I can’t see that it matters much!
By the way, Jazz, I have a new book coming out this week. Can I send one to you to review for Story Circle? Do I need to send it to them directly?
I recommend sending to Story Circle directly – I will let them know I’d love to review it!