Sunset in Reverse by Margaret Dubay Mikus, Copyright 2014
“He might be the first to say
he was ordinary,
a man making choices with great clarity,
understanding consequences
to holding hate and anger close,
how one gets burned
and nothing gets accomplished….”
From “White Woman from Illinois on Mandela” in my book, Thrown Again into the Frazzle Machine: Poems of Grace, Hope, and Healing. Listen here: https://youtu.be/hHvHZ7noO94
My internet was down today and I wasn’t sure I could get a post out. I didn’t freak out, but let it go…what will be will be. Yet a way to do it presented itself (in the form of my husband), and I took it. These videos have become my lifeline, kind of, and I needed that.
I read this poem in my voice lesson on Wednesday. Now that I’m choosing what to read each day from all the possibilities, I wanted to pick something that caught the feeling for me, the urgency maybe. I had some ideas, but I waited until the inner voice was clear. And I trusted: Read about “ordinary people” doing extraordinary things. Yes. Isn’t that part of hope, remembering…?
Flag over Harbor, Door County, Wis. by M D Mikus, Copyright 2014
For more poem videos from the series
THROWN AGAIN into the FRAZZLE MACHINE: Poems of Grace, Hope, and Healing