National Poetry Month Challenge - Day 5

Today's writing prompt for the poem-a-day challenge was to write a poem of discovery.

To Be the White Orchid

Your newly polished self –

it shines in light

and in dark.

It rises above.

Your newly polished self

knows no boundaries,

because you have come

full circle

to the lightness of Being

that is you.

You surge

like the streamlined, silver power lines

of the city –

all jet stream

and mercury.

You wander into the self

with eyes wide to truth –

knowing that

this sometimes isn’t pretty –

this sometimes tastes stale.

Your newly polished self

wants to tango –

wants to leave town –

wants to be the white orchid –

exquisite

and

rare.

You are true blue –

newly polished. 

Cristina M. R. Norcross

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