Tuesday, December 29th, 2009...1:30 pm
Countdown
Jump to Comments
Stay up late to be wide-awake
witnesses as time molts
the last dry deadness
of last year’s skin
outgrown
and emerge, having grown,
with soft skin freshly painted
with the new year’s colors.
Coming to the almost-midnight
New Year’s countdown,
I want to join time
in molting the self
that died and dies again,
the steady decrease of me
for the increase of Another
so that I may
emerge, having grown,
with soft heart freshly wrapped
with presentable wisdom
as I continue a countdown
of my own.
So teach us to number our days
That we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom.- Psalm 90:12
(A High Calling Blogs Random Act of Poetry, for L.L. Barkat’s prompt to write a poem containing a New Year’s word. The word I chose: countdown.)
...to Know-Love-Obey God
7 Comments
December 29th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Interesting, isn’t it, how we mark the years this way. Our growth. But we do. It’s a time to think.
December 29th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by nAncY, Monica Sharman. Monica Sharman said: This week's RAP for New Year's: Countdown – http://shar.es/a960L [...]
December 30th, 2009 at 10:23 am
It’s the new every morning thing I guess.
A clean slate.
And yet we’re not.
I hope I can keep getting rid of the dust, keeping letting light in.
I imagine you are already more than you imagine.
love to you
December 30th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
“…witnesses as time molts
the last dry deadness
of last year’s skin
outgrown…”
“…I want to join time
in molting the self
that died and dies again,
the steady decrease of me
for the increase of Another…”
The whole poem is great. I love those lines in particular.
The year molting…
I, too, molting.
Memorable.
December 30th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
I don’t know what to say except ME TOO! Your words– they are my heart. This self that died and dies again– make it new, Father.
January 1st, 2010 at 8:04 am
[...] Maureen’s Making New Year’s Resolutions, A Simple Country Girl’s Once Was Smooth, Monica’s Countdown, Joanne’s The Brave [...]
January 1st, 2010 at 9:31 pm
I really like this. Wonderful writing
Leave a Reply