RHYMING VERSE

My friend Denise was the divinely-inspired link to my discovery of prompt writing in 2015, and my perfect partner through the early stages when I was just getting my feet under me, before the rhyming established itself, before it took on a life of its own needless of anyone or anything but me~ me, tuned to hear that first line, to recognize it for what it was when it presented itself, to be willing to stop whatever I was doing in that moment, open a Google Drive doc on my phone and feed that first line into black-and-white text through voice dictation. Then to stay with it, to continue flowing in that particular frequency zone: receiving the transmission, midwifing the poem to life through my human/spirit filters, interpreting, translating, stanza by stanza, birthing its body of living intelligence onto the page, into the form of four-line, rhyming-verse poetry~ voila! All that’s changed since then is that the poems have grown longer, and even longer, many now arriving as sagas challenging my left brain logic: “Really? Really? You’ve got to be kidding!” While my no-holds-barred right brain stands back, giggling, “Fantastico! Climb aboard that magic carpet! Let’s take a wild ride! No idea of where we’ll end up, but it will be fun, and amazing, that’s for sure!“