Negotiate Chaos

It’s cold in the world, yet the sun shines, with us a silhouette of hope and a reflection of bright memories we hold close to save the truth.

With this picture and thought, I continued my art coursework, my respite in the ongoing chaos of the changing world. Today’s fun was impressionist landscaping with Liz Kohler Brown on Skillshare.

My practice:

And from that, my prompt for #poetryport with #clmooc in February today was “Negotiate.”

Negotiate

Negotiate chaos:

Ground oneself

Share aloud

Share together

In weathered words

We hold close and true

In shared art

We hold dreams anew

In scattered connections

We hold hopeful futures too.

So, it seemed to fit in the landscape– the weathered tree at sunset: