A word pool!

Art mandala by: Patricia J. Mosca

A word pool is a group of randomly chosen words you begin with and add others to make prose or poetry or really whatever it wants to be. In the interest of poetic freedom: you don't have to use all of words and grammar, punctuation and even making sense is optional.

Be adventurous. Before you read the following poem, do your own word pool with these words: engulf, midnight, gesture, simmer, collect, morning, testify, electricity, actually, carry, argue, seven, handful, detective, size, hat, listen, scrawl, alley

LEARNING

The midnight witching hour arrives

Filled with electricity...

Allowing me to clothe myself in the darkness.

Donning my detective hat
I feel blanketed by the

mystery of the night...

The mystery of ME.

Approaching an alley of my mind...

I find seven signs that testify that

INDEED!

I have been here many times before.

I collect the gestures of ME
that remain from the

previous day.

I find that I
ARGUE
with my inner self...

Did I learn nothing?

Did I grow in size and form?

Did I listen to the scrawl that was written
on the walls of my heart?

Morning rapidly approaches....

I am actually
ENGULFED
in the shimmer of it...

Knowing that this is a new dawn...

A new day to start
over again.

I gather my handful of messages...

I gather my gestures...

I gather my seven signs..

I gather my heart.

I take off my detective hat and I

BREATHE...

Breathe deeply...

as I carry myself forward

into this slice of a new day...

of learning more
about ME.

Artfully Yours,
Pattie

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