30 poems in 30 days is the challenge over at Real Toads today.
To begin this month-long celebration of daily poems, let’s begin by drawing the proper Tarot card.
Various decks portray the Ace of Wands as a hand coming out of a cloud, the rod which Moses used to strike the water of life, or the club of Hercules. There is usually a river to cross, a mountain to climb. (And yes, a bone to pick.) It is an invitation to voyage.
In Tarot tradition, the Ace of Wands is a card of optimism and invention. Aces are lucky, and the fire-suit of Wands strikes a match for creativity, excitement and adventure.
The Ace of Wands also signifies the energy and dedication required to complete a large task, like that of writing a poem a day for a month.
The card is drawn, our quest announced! Help us all get out the door and to the shore where the boat is waiting. What is your inspiration, what describes the journey you are about to undertake? What is the inner nature of this journey? Make your beginning here. Make a map of your quest.
And since today is also April Fool’s Day, let’s cross or crown our journey with The Fool Tarot card, that madman-beggar-child-bard whose fool errand is pure sunshine and dizzy precipice. It is the basest and most refined attitude in which to undertake a journey. Who are we kidding, writing a poem a day for a month? Crossing oceans while Rome drowns? Rhyming in a hurricane? Playing catch with Fido while Heaven falls? Who can stop us! (Include a note of this too if you like.)
A call to adventure
journey awaits
once more
seven gates
four circles
a trinity of wonder
what is required of me
exists
in both the known
and the unknown
following inanna
in the descent
and perhaps
the ascent
and as with all journeys
the dance will play out
between the two
and as i ponder my response
i have already begun
this fools quest
napowrimo 1/30
A great selection of apt words in this poem, Paul. Who knows where this journey may take you.
Who indeed.
Wow, you’re planning to journey deep! That should be exciting.
We shall see Rosemary, we shall see 😉
Good to see you are daring
If you never start the month will pass.
Well begun and all that Bjorn 😉
I love this poem of commencement on the journey. Happy travels!
Thank You Sherry. Let the travels commence.
I can feel the excitement here upon embarking a new journey 😀 Beautifully penned.
Thank You Sanaa
Paul, what you seek, is never, a fool’s quest, but the noblest of causes, self-enlightenment.
I agree it is not ‘a fools’ quest 😉
to be fools among kin 🙂 ~
Invocation is a door to invitation, and there’s plenty here. The short lines assemble a wand-poem, waving as they sing. You have prepared yourself well!
🙂
Isn’t life just a fool’s quest? Well done, Paul!
An eloquent poem to express any journey called foolish.