This is a good thing. The older I get, the more I come to believe that I am totally incapable of doing pretty much anything of worth unless I have some structures in place to assist me and some accountability to keep me from giving up.
Luckily, I also have poetry - another thing in my life that has taught me that even though structure seems boring, it can lead to pure magic.
So tonight with those thoughts, I came up with a new set of structures/a writing goal I want to keep myself accountable to: Tiny Twelve-Lines-or-Less Tuesday Poems!
The name kinda says it all -- on Tuesdays, I'm going to write one tiny poem. Just a small one. It's not intimidating, it sounded fun, and having a routine like that seemed like a good idea for me.
I certainly won't be sharing them all, and I will certainly miss a few Tuesdays here and there, but I'm trying to start teeeeeny tiny in the hopes that a structure turns into a discipline turns into a better me.
Here's my first Tiny Twelve-Lines-or-Less Tuesday Poem. I'll probably write a lot of them based on what I've been reading during the week. This go around, it's the book of Genesis.
Any Tuesday structures you can think of adding to your life to help meet your goals? It doesn't have to be big - it can be tiny!
Happy Tuesday, team!
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Loving Adam
Silence then names. I watch
you make fish into fish, cows
to cows. Mountains, together,
cloud wisps and mercy,
love - all new to me.
This life - everything is too
free.
The river waters without ask.
I break you,
and it hurts: my heartbeat
beats against your bones.
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