"It's time for the first day of the2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge! Each day, I'll provide a poetry prompt and a poem to get things started. You can secretly poem along at home, or you can share your poem in the comments below.
For today's prompt, write an optimistic poem. I find the beginnings of things to be a time of great optimism. Whether it's the beginning of a sporting season or a month (or even a week), there's so much opportunity available. But optimism can exist anywhere and at any time; so don't limit your optimism to the beginnings of things."
Today we embark on
a new day, a new week and a new month!
All great new reasons to embrace optimism!
Behind us lies the dust and ash of seasons spilled and spent
Unfurling in its aftermath a bittersweet tableau
Of what may sometimes seem like a cosmic experiment
Of love, learning how to hold on while learning to let go
Like an unblemished phoenix today gleams, a priceless stone
In hands where we, fumbling proprietors of precious time
Proceed, through daybreak's gaping door, vessels of skin and bone
And Soul, shouldering grin and groan as on and up we climb
I love the loveliness of a new day, like a clean sweep
Like a fresh page, rather than yesterday's returned 'so-long'
I love the way the ending as we drifted off to sleep
Evolves into the Intro of a whole new worship song
Behind us lies the old; the dust and ash of ages set
Before us gleams the new; like treasure from an unplumbed trove
Beneath us streams a fresh measure of moments never met
Like music notes composing brand-new hymns of hope and love
Janet Martin
Psalm 100 is a glorious way to refresh optimism with
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