allie millington
poetry
the Great Right Now
and wouldn't it be something
if our favorite past time
became not to pass time
but to learn to make it stop
to learn to stay
in the wake
of the Great Right Now
and grab hold
of
e v e r y t h i n g
it had to give
an ode to the ordinary
to live in the Little
in the land of No-One-Sees
to be faithful in the common
in the Here-We-Go-Again
to show up in the simple
in the Day-To-Day, today
these are the ways
in which
we are most brave
the Not-So-Sure
courage is not found
in the having no fear
but rather
in the doing it anyway-
in the taking that breath
that first step
that plunge
into the deep
of the Not-So-Sure
and in turning back
& being able to say
look how far I've come
breath & being
and wouldn't you agree
that her beauty is not
in what she puts on
but in what she takes in
and gives out
and that her very breath and being
is something to behold?
an ode to adventure
they say home is where the heart is
but what if
you've left behind
pieces
in phases,
in New-To-You places,
in slow & steady stages,
in the Discovering of spaces,
& the Friendliness of faces,
until
little by little
your heart is
e v e r y w h e r e ?
a slew of strangers
to collect books is to stack
w o r l d s
on top of each other,
to squeeze
a d v e n t u r e
onto a shelf,
to hold a company of Heroes hostage,
to invite a slew of strangers to stay awhile
to build a k i n g d o m
of words right under your roof--
to collect books is to
g a t h e r u p
pieces and parts of yourself
that stay with you long after
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