From: Akwasi Aidoo <akwasi.aidoo@gmail.com>
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
Happiest New Year!!! 2021 is here, and let's please try not to pronounce it like "2020-Won" (Twenty Twenty-Won) because 2020 did not win and prevent the emergence of 2021. LOL.
Yesterday, The Writer's Almanac shared a short and deep couplet-poem by David Budbill, the acclaimed "People's Poet of Vermont." He was something of a "Mountain Recluse", but I was so blessed to hear him at a poetry reading in Montpelier years ago (before his passing away -- may his soul rest in eternal peace and his legacy live on!).
The poem, which is about Winter, bears somewhat on how we can turn the self-isolation that this pandemic has laid on us in all forms of "house arrest", into connection with our inner self/being/purpose.
It beautifully connects the temporal, spiritual and spatial dimensions of us and our world! Excellent poem bearing on soul searching and the adage that "when it's dark enough, we can see the stars (in us)." Structurally, the poem has a sweet balance of iambic trimeter and trochaic octameter.
The messaging of the poem also brings to mind the computer-animated fantasy comedy-drama movie titled, Soul, which was released 10 days ago (worth watching).
Here is the poem, followed by a great song by the Australian pop star, Sia Kate Isobelle Furler, titled Courage to Change. Enjoy!
Winter Is the Best Time
by David Budbill
Winter is the best time
to find out who you are.
Quiet, contemplation time,
away from the rushing world,
cold time, dark time, holed-up
pulled-in time and space
to see that inner landscape,
that place hidden and within.
Link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQACEqf4QY
Cheers,
Akwasi
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