Pomegranate Flowers: NaPoWriMo 2022: Exploring Together

[4/25/2022]

What is a dance with no partner, you ask?

What is the point of solo waltzing?

What is the tide without her moon,

The honeybee who can’t find her bloom?

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I say there is value in dancing alone,

For the art, for the form, for the structure and freedom.

And the tide still comes in when the moon isn’t watching,

The bee is as real in the hive as out working.

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But listen! You say, because you are lonely.

Solo can’t be the only way to dance,

And when the moon is asleep

The tide still doesn’t come in by chance.

The bee can rest, but she’ll still be needing

Another time to go hunting and feeding.

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Can we reach out long enough to agree

That the world is bigger than you and me?

Solo or coupled, in darkness in moonlight,

Out in the vast meadow wandering…

This world is worth exploring and pondering.