This is this week's submission for One Single Impression (prompt # 31): Fleeting
One Single Impression is a community of poets writing and sharing haiku and other poetic forms. Each week a new prompt is offered for inspiration.
So much of the poetry on One Single Impression is beautiful and/or elegant. This submission is not that or that...
slug-like
contracted
bound up
too much
what kind of marketing mischief
calls relief from a century of gobbling consumption
fleet?
shouldn't real relief be called:
'have you considered eating more locavore cruciferous vegetables'?
or
'if you'd exercise a tad more regularly, you'd feel a lot better?'
or, at least:
'one good fight with your significant other would clear this problem right up'?
Or, finally, how about:
'Just stop'
Too much stuff
made consumed discarded
everything is breaking down,
thank all the gods and goddesses and all the tea in china.
Oh, that this were a fleeting problem.
Or confined to only my gut.
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard (full version--worth your time!)
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About Beth Patterson
The Virtual Tea House website became 'word-ripe' when, over a cup of jasmine green, I realized that the web has an expanding part to play in the communal aspects of spiritual growth.
One of my favorite hats, among several is: initiated firekeeper in the Sacred Fire Community. Hosting a monthly community fire circle, I'm being taught that the simple act of sitting around a fire with the intent of holding open-hearted space makes for some soulful community!
With a master's degree in religion, my career spans 20 years in end of life care and I currently work in the field of child abuse intervention and advocacy.
Here in beautiful Central Oregon, my spiritual homes of the high desert and the mountains are both in proximity. And for good measure, four hours away is Grandmother Ocean and the stunning Oregon Coast.
I'm making decent progress on the goal set by my mother early on: she taught us that the goal of humanity should be to become ever-more eccentric, i.e. more fully human.
Entering the 'forest-dweller' phase of life, I am honored to host the Virtual Tea House for all who wish to explore how our lives are enriched and made new a thousand times each day by the spirituality we embody. Exploring this engagement together is the purpose of the Virtual Tea House.
Welcome! Let's have a cup of virtual tea together and share what brings us joy, what we are being taught by life, how we are leaning into the Big Questions posed to us each day in sometimes 'distressing disguises'.