{"id":1332,"date":"2016-05-28T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T15:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2016-05-28T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T15:19:41","slug":"rising-up-to-meet-the-road-by-jennifer-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Rising Up to Meet the Road, by Jennifer Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rising Up to Meet the Road<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Angelina Petro<\/p>\n

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There are poems unfinished<\/p>\n

Waiting in the woods beneath roots of trees<\/p>\n

And hovering, like horsetail clouds behind the moon;<\/p>\n

There are songs unwritten<\/p>\n

Following beside me as I walk,<\/p>\n

Their melodies coming in snippets, like<\/p>\n

Distant birdcalls or pieces<\/p>\n

Of dreams, and soundbites<\/p>\n

Of conversations overheard<\/p>\n

In used bookstores, classrooms, and coffee shops,<\/p>\n

Their rhythms blossoming<\/p>\n

From the muse and the soul touching all night, all day,<\/p>\n

Every day, when I am not able to dance<\/p>\n

Either asleep or awake;<\/p>\n

There is work undone<\/p>\n

Waiting in the universe, making its way<\/p>\n

Towards my door, opportunities<\/p>\n

Growing, like flower gardens<\/p>\n

Planted when no one is looking,<\/p>\n

But they are coming, they are revealing<\/p>\n

Themselves little by little, like<\/p>\n

Spring in the coldest of winters;<\/p>\n

There are people unloved<\/p>\n

Waiting in the wings for me to release the spirits<\/p>\n

That bind me–to make my way<\/p>\n

Towards the light, to open<\/p>\n

The hands of my heart<\/p>\n

And let in those who see<\/p>\n

And feel and know my name,<\/p>\n

And for me to step through<\/p>\n

The fourth wall and into their arms and lives;<\/p>\n

There are answered prayers<\/p>\n

Unprayed, waiting to be let loose<\/p>\n

Into the world, like<\/p>\n

So many fireflies, like a carnival<\/p>\n

Of children, like a collection<\/p>\n

Of songs and poems<\/p>\n

Published on the wings<\/p>\n

Of pain and healing and lifting their way<\/p>\n

Into moonlit clouds and sunlit days,<\/p>\n

And alighting back down as angels and<\/p>\n

Moonbeams, sunbeams and ends of rainbows,<\/p>\n

Petals of cherry blossoms,<\/p>\n

Dragonflies, and cries of cicadas<\/p>\n

And morning doves, and beings<\/p>\n

Of all the elements, and all of this, all of this<\/p>\n

Swirling into one, worthy to be lived<\/p>\n

Life of one woman rising up<\/p>\n

To meet the road.<\/p>\n

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