My favorite author, Beth Kempton, is always doing cool daily writing challenges. Her Winter Writing Retreat always fills my soul around Christmas. In February, she always hosts a poem writing extravaganza called #tinywinterpoem, where she gives a daily word and invites writers to take ten minutes and create a poem without editing. I will share them here for the next little while:
Legacy Lives On
My grandfather
through sweat and tears
sacrifice and perserverence
built the barn
cleared the land
planted the crops
raised the animals
From Nothing
into Something
A Dream
into Reality
Doubts
into Belief
Pitfalls were plenty
Legacies are blind to each one...
Now just a memory
as family morphed into corporate
And only a few lucky enough to make the transition
Just as he
the creator of his kingdom
the farm and all its fruits
have withered and fallen
returning back to dust...
Remembered in stories
told by his kin
and in the ghosts
who echo within the wind...
Legacy lives on!
