Coping

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Coping

When I’m in the mood for moping,
with no energy for coping,
reticent to kowtow to
boss or parent or guru,
when I’m feeling less than zealous,
down-at-soul, depressed or jealous,
concerned with what I seem to lack,
I go and lie upon my back
in bed or hammock or in pool
in water steaming, tepid, cool.


The point is getting horizontal
on a surface that is fontal,
foam or tightly woven and hung
in a garden, loosely slung.
And there I dream or inspect trees
for butterflies or birds or bees.
I watch their habits, or I dream
joining that unconscious stream
that says the world is not my biz.
Only what is closest is.

And I pull inward to a world
where all the universe lies furled.
Then, enlivened, I get up
to write or play with dogs or sup,
rejoining that space and clime
I’m meant to live in for a time.
I do what I have power to
to civilize this human zoo.
“Think globally,” they used to say.
“Act locally.” Still true today.

 

The prompts:
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/Cope
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/rdp80-reticent/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/08/19/fowc-with-fandango-kowtow/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/zealous/

15 thoughts on “Coping”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      It is about a woman whose family had emigrated to the U.S. generations before who took her young family to Croatia to search out her family history. She presented at a writers’ conference here.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      You don’t need trees to mount a hammock. You should request one for your birthday and/or Xmas, which I know occur close together. They really are amazing, Mary, expecially for people like you, perhaps, who don’t give themselves permission to rest and do nothing. Cool in the summer because air circulates under you if you have one loosely knitted with holes.

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