Poem: "Ozurie"
This poem came out of the March 19, 2024 Bonus Fishbowl. It was inspired by the "Sun Catchers" square in my 3-1-24 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. It has been sponsored by Anthony Barrette. This poem belongs to A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows series.
"Ozurie"
feeling torn between the life
you have and the life you want
You live life with
reality in one hand
and dreams in the other.
It makes for ambivalence:
you're always pulled both ways.
On the one hand, you think
about job and paycheck and
making sure that you have
clean dishes to eat off of.
On the other, you think
about why the sunset is
colored and how to capture
that in paint or words, and
whether there might be
life on Enceladus and
what it could look like.
It's okay, though --
you need both roots
and wings to survive.
Without the practicalities,
you can't focus on creativity.
Without your creativity,
practicalities have little point.
Your chores are always there,
a lead framework that holds
everything else together.
Your dreams are always there,
tinting your life as you look at it,
the way stained glass colors sunlight,
without impeding its passage.
* * *
Notes:
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig, p. 17. Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Sunsets produce vivid colors due to atmospheric interactions. Enjoy a tutorial about painting a sunset or browse an archive of tutorials. Learn how to describe a sunset in a story, including without the words "light" or "color" in it.
Enceladus is a large moon orbiting Saturn, with an icy surface that may harbor life in a liquid ocean below.
Stained glass is tinted in different colors while hot, and used to create picturesque artworks by fitting together small pieces held in place by lead or other metal framework.
"Ozurie"
feeling torn between the life
you have and the life you want
You live life with
reality in one hand
and dreams in the other.
It makes for ambivalence:
you're always pulled both ways.
On the one hand, you think
about job and paycheck and
making sure that you have
clean dishes to eat off of.
On the other, you think
about why the sunset is
colored and how to capture
that in paint or words, and
whether there might be
life on Enceladus and
what it could look like.
It's okay, though --
you need both roots
and wings to survive.
Without the practicalities,
you can't focus on creativity.
Without your creativity,
practicalities have little point.
Your chores are always there,
a lead framework that holds
everything else together.
Your dreams are always there,
tinting your life as you look at it,
the way stained glass colors sunlight,
without impeding its passage.
* * *
Notes:
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig, p. 17. Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Sunsets produce vivid colors due to atmospheric interactions. Enjoy a tutorial about painting a sunset or browse an archive of tutorials. Learn how to describe a sunset in a story, including without the words "light" or "color" in it.
Enceladus is a large moon orbiting Saturn, with an icy surface that may harbor life in a liquid ocean below.
Stained glass is tinted in different colors while hot, and used to create picturesque artworks by fitting together small pieces held in place by lead or other metal framework.