Happy Holidays - have some poems!

This post was originally shared on Incurably Human before that publication merged with 100 Poems to become Wild Ground.

I should—according to someone somewhere—be wrapping presents or baking that lemon tart I promised my oldest son. I should be doing something festive! Something communal! I should be finding my solitude less delightful. None of these ‘shoulds’ belong to me, though. They pop sometimes on the periphery of my mind, but I’m mostly ignoring them. Instead, I’ve been relishing having a couple days to myself and have been writing rather a lot of poems. Here are a few of them—my gift to you this season. The first two were inspired by prompts (“the table” and “dreamscape”) from Kaitlin Curtice. The second two just rose up like smoke as I sat by a fire.

Photo by Cullan Smith on Unsplash

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I’d love to hear from you in the comments! How are you navigating this season, with its frequent undercurrents of too-much and never-enough? What’s feeling nourishing or joyful right now? What’s feeling hard? What have you created lately? What are you dreaming of creating in the season ahead?