Words on Wednesday
Posted: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 by Travis Cody inDancing update: Shandi and Brian go home. Next up for our remaining couples - Paso Doble and Waltz. YAY!! My favorite dance is Waltz!!
So, what to do on this Wednesday. I was working on a story, but it's not really doing anything for me. It's just a bunch of words that don't seem to go anywhere interesting.
A poem perhaps? I could pull an older piece. But that's the problem. I have older work, but very few new verses. I need something fresh.
I started a particular piece a couple of months ago. As with most of my poetry, the opening lines just wrote themselves. But I've been struggling with the theme. Is it a poem of spring? Of renewal? Is it melancholy? Does it have a point at all?
The best thing I can say about poetry is that it does have meaning. This poem means something to me - it must since it came from my thoughts. But that meaning may have absolutely nothing to do with you, my dear reader. You may find something entirely different. Or you may find nothing at all.
Anything to anyone or nothing to no one, these are my words on Wednesday.
I Watched A Flower Grow
By Travis Cody
I watched a flower grow
A blur of color through my window
Simple and elegant
Beckoning spring to dance
I watched a cloud form
A soft shadow on the horizon
Placid in the moment
Yet holding ominous intent
I see the starkness in a life
Challenged daily by strife
Wishing only for peace
And a quiet place to dream
I have a song in my mind
A melody strong and alive
Yearning to be heard
To be sung and shared
A thing of joy, the flower
Roiling cloud chooses the hour
The music of many souls
May guide the weary ones home
April 2007
On this day in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis TN. He was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. We have come so far, and still have so far to travel. Give a thought to the idea of peace, justice, and liberty for all. I believe that it is in the striving for these things that we find in ourselves the better human being.
Travis let me see if I've got this righr. Committed to your lady, poetic and interested in dancing.You must be a figment of my imagination; Send some DNA to Scotland, to the guy who made Dolly the sheep. You owe it to the desperate women of the world!