With Due Ceremony (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, June 5, 2024, feast day of the (above) Blessed Virgin of Help, and the Icon of the Mother of God of Igor. On Jewish calendar today is the Passing of Samuel (877 BC) and Jerusalem Liberated (1967). Image from here.) 

With Due Ceremony

(a found poem)

I firmly believe in lunch

sweet stopping-fueling-sighing —

though I can pass right on by the stopping part

perhaps the most important part, its look

round at morning’s accomplishments, 

short siesta, soft bow before next bend —

         and most magical of questions:

                      “What’s next?

*After fellow BRWers Betty Fannelli (line 5, beg. line 6) and Gerri Gutwein (end line 6, line 7-8) from their freewrites, used with permission, June 5, 2024 BreatheReadWrite.

*From prompt: Finish the thought of “I believe in lunch”. From Lisa Freedman’s BreatheReadWrite, June 5, 2024.