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Blogging about all things poetry - starting with 30 days and 30 poems
#979330 added March 27, 2020 at 11:21am
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March 27, 2020 - Judy Brown - The Trough
March 27
I am going to use a poem that was shared as part of today's prompt for the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. It is by Judy Brown and it is called The Trough. I find it inspirational in that we must remember in this time of overwhelming uncertainty, much like the waves, we need to rest there and not let panic take us down. If we rest and breathe, we will be able to reorient ourselves and find our way out.

The Trough


There is a trough in waves,
a low spot
where horizon disappears
and only sky
and water
are our company.
And there we lose our way
unless
we rest, knowing the wave will bring us
to its crest again.
There we may drown
if we let fear
hold us in its grip and shake us
side to side,
and leave us flailing, torn, disoriented.
But if we rest there
in the trough,
in silence,
being in the low part of the wave,
keeping our energy and
noticing the shape of things,
the flow,
then time alone
will bring us to another
place
where we can see
horizon, see land again,
regain our sense
of where
we are,
and where we need to swim.


I found this link of her reading her poem:



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