No Power In The Verse Can Stop Me NaPoWriMo 2025

“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning, in this broken world” - Mary Oliver


It is a serious thing
To reverently look upon 
The trees, the fields, the sunset
Breathing in their shapes and colours.
It is a serious thing
To recognise the names of flowers,
To yell the names of birds of prey,
Or dogs, or sheep, or cows
With equal joy and elation 
Time after time after time…
It is a serious thing
To be completely unserious, unmasked, unhinged 
In several barely comprehensible ways
It is a serious thing
Just to be alive and gloriously broken 
In this broken world 
With you