Irresistible Reassurances

A Collage Poem

By

Jennifer Angelina Petro

Arranged from the Beautiful Words of the Beautiful Suzanne Snyder

 

 

 

In a hammock behind the frog pond,

I’ve just made magical thoughts.

I’m coming back around to moments,

 

and feeling/sensing myself

and my surroundings

and letting myself notice: I am.

 

Gratefully. And it feels so good

to curate that experience,

with such intensity

I find myself wanting more,

and being as decadent as possible

with the wanting more—

 

for wanting is OK in meditation,

and in wanting still more.

 

Just because I’m quiet

it doesn’t mean my head is empty.

I am finding joy somewhere–

Here—I am taking peace in whatever form it comes.

 

Today, I found frogs and so many

pretty purple growing things (Yes—

that’s heaven), I listened

to their beautiful languages–

they all speak

with such excitement—giving me

way too many paragraphs

than I asked for—

but every sentence they speak

rings a chord in my soul–

irresistible reassurances

of how worthy I am,

and I wouldn’t change a thing.