I haven't posted in quite a while. I'm not exactly sure what I want to do with a blog. Sometimes I think I should keep the posts really short, change the name and jazz up the background a bit so it will appeal to people like my younger daughter who says my posts are too long and hasn't read any of them. Somehow I want the blog to express me, but I'm a person who has many facets and different ones show at different times, so to really express myself, my blog would always be changing! So far this blog has had two names and I don't like either of them but don't have any better ones waiting in the wings... (I'm open to suggestions!)
I have been thinking that I want to try posting more frequently. A friend told me I should post my poetry, and since I was inspired during mass today to write a poem that describes how I feel lately, I thought I'd post that.
I am a tree tossed about by the wind
my branches whipping
my leaves torn away
I bend and swoop with each gust
back and forth
frenzy and agitation.
Yet I am rooted firmly in soil
where I cannot see
strong earthy anchoring me
Bending, yielding, yet not breaking
or moving from my earthy fastness.
Tempests blow me about
rattling, shaking my limbs
bowing my trunk
but my roots are invisibly, firmly gripped
by soil embracing and homing me.
