(Wendy Cabell, May 12, 2021, Rosh Chodesh Sivan. Day when (in 2105 BC, see Genesis 8:3) the flood waters receded; and when (in 1313 BC) the Israelites began thier encampment at Mount Sinai. Feast day of above Blessed Jane of Portugal, Blessed Imelda Lambertini, and Saints Euphrosyna and Theodora of Terracina. Image from here.)
Things To Do When Panic Strikes
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
--Saint Francis de Sales
1. Notice there is a without, not only a within.
2. But know the within is not the alone.
3. Feel your breath, its bellows' whoosh,
4. or rather your Maker's breath, whoosh from birth, making you a living soul.
5. This soul that has grown. Into this place. Into this moment.
6. Remain in the surprise of life:
in limb, on tongue, even now.
*From prompt: write a six point advice poem, based on advice topic of choice and a series of six freewritten verbs; from Daisy Barratt-Nash's Legacy Poetry, May 12, 2021.
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