POEMS + Inspirations

I have been getting back into poetry again and have found it extremely helpful in allowing me to gather my thoughts for themes and stories. So I wanted to make a section where we just post up poems we've written or like, or put up other inspirational things: quotes, thoughts, or the like that move us. Plus, I like poetry.

The Other Carolyn Groeger Poem

I sit inside my boat and you in yours
And he in his, and she in hers.
Of every man, woman and child
A boat of which they sit alone
but not alone.

My boat has sprung a leak and so has yours
And he in his, and she in hers.
In every boat a leak has sprung
That each must sift the water rising
With their fingers.

I fight the ocean, you fight it too
And he in his, and she in hers.
On every face, the burden’s proved
Of lives drudged through in fighting waters
That never cease.

But no life is forever, you know it too
And he in his, and she in hers.
Of my boat, I’ll let it sink that I may spend
My life noticing you in yours
And they in theirs.

I let the ocean in, you do it too
And he in his, and she in hers.
In every boat we are near drowned
But how we’ve lived with each other
And not alone.

Empty Places

Everyone is talking, and the sad
Song of empty places is drowned
Out by the slow herd
Of children filing into the room.

Theirs is a song in syncopation
So full of the joys of never finding
The downbeats, that it hardly seems to be
A song at all, and yet they sing.

Some years from now, a few of them will
Learn to love the empty places,
And will not sing, even when asked
that soon no one will.

Then one day, without any impetus,
They will sit, one by one, and sing again
Finding a common rhythm at last
in the sorrows of lives always in transit.

So down they’ll sit. Their suitcases and bags,
Full of worries and troubles fall to the side,
And the sad song of the empty places
Finally leaves their hearts.