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Dear Fellow Poets,

Here you find a smattering of my poetry, from “Merry Meet and Merry Part,” now available in beautiful physical form over in my Etsy shop, thanks to many supportive backers on Kickstarter. ♥︎

'Be still. A heart cannot heal fast.
Observe mine shifting hands.
A changing mind whose growth will last,
Must swim a tide of sands.'

I hope to add more poems here when time allows; there’s an RSS feed below if you’d like to follow along.

merry meet!
Aimee

(updated October 30, 2024)

ps— my writings are copyrighted, but please feel free to share my poetry where you will, as long as my name and a link here is included. For commercial use, please contact me for arrangements.

pps— here is the RSS feed for this poetry blog. I do not send emails or letters for these poems, so an RSS reader is the only way to get notified of a new poem here. For apple users, I recommend NetNewsWire, “It’s like podcasts — but for reading.” I use it to follow many artists on many indie sites.

Lantern Light

Beware- yet trudge that lantern on,

Let moths collect their due,

What light attracts will part come dawn,

But darkness might claim you.

What is the cost of optimism? Are you afraid of what your little light might attract in the forest? Would you rather put out your light, to risk losing your way in the dark? I find that hope often lights my way, even as it makes me feel more visible, more vulnerable. But still better than lost. It takes courage to continue on, and while I am not always good at it, while I fear putting myself out there more now than I ever did, any fluttering moths will not last the night.

Aimee WoodFebruary 3, 2022PoemComment