Seeing them together
caused my pause
to write a gift for you
on scraps found. My pen
pulled my hand along
(it is braver than I).
It knows how to lay
my heart wide open,
like a prairie to the sky
nowhere to hide
expansive and still,
miles from adequate
for what I wish to give.
© Ali Grimshaw (rewrite 2019)
flashlight batteries - Ali Grimshaw 
Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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caused my pause
to write a gift for you
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This is interesting because these lines were added in my rewrite.
Thanks for sharing my friend. Much love to you.
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Love this especially; “It knows how to lay my heart wide open, like a prairie to the sky.” Beautiful! ❤️
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Thank you for sharing what spoke to you in this poem. Have a beautiful day.
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Ah, that feeling…
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I can relate to the pen pulling your hand along. I love the bravery.
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Thanks Colleen. All writers are brave. Don’t you think?
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Yes, I do. It takes courage to write and be ‘exposed’.
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Three cheers for your bravery. Keep it up.
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And yours 🙂 we’re all pen warriors.
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yes we are
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Write it. Love this part:
my heart wide open,
like a prairie to the sky
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Thank you for sharing your reflection. It is fascinating to see what resonates with others. I really enjoy your poetry.
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Such beautiful poem – the feeling of the courage and the vulnerability comes with much gentleness. I admire your talent with words.
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I am genuinely touched by your words. What matters most to me is that my poems authentically speak to the experience of being human and with that help the reader to feel connection.
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I liked to image of a poem that scrambled to be written, even just on scraps of paper. Love is the poet’s purview, and you seem comfortable within its grasp.
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What a marvelous compliment. Thank you so much.
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Our pen speaks for us if we choose to set it to paper. I, too, like the phrase of the prairie open to the sky.
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Thank you for taking the time to leave your positive response.
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I love the imagery, flow, and lines about bravery, and heart wide open. Kudos Ali.
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Ahhh, thank you so very much for reading and taking the time to leave feedback.
Have a beautiful day.
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My pleasure.
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Oh the words of a lovely poet, with a brave pen to show her when
“It knows how to lay
my heart wide open,
like a prairie to the sky”
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Ivor, I think you must know that feeling of laying your heart wide open. I can tell from your poems that you have a big heart.
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I suppose you are right Ali 😊🤗
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Nice description of how it got done: “My pen
pulled my hand along”
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Thanks for sharing what spoke to you in this poem.
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Truly lovely, Ali “My heart wide open, like a prairie to the sky…” And such a the;ling last few lines too… Great stuff…
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I appreciate your positive response. Isn’t love grand when you give yourself fully?
Have a beautiful day.
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wondrously inventive, touching verse
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Tony, thanks for taking time to leave feedback. I always appreciate it.
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I love the thought of that brave pen writing for you…
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Bjorn, it is not easy to be brave but we all have bravery inside of us.
Thanks for your comment.
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