POETRY / 30 DAY POETRY CHALLENGE
Architect of Self
Prompt Day 15: A life of one’s own design
Sometimes our life can feel as though it isn’t quite our own, there are rules, responsibilities, and pressures that we face. And I have often battled with a sense of real frustration, a strong desire to make my life feel more like it’s MY space.
Instead I always find myself trapped in the push and pull, existence where external forces all exert control upon my time, my thoughts, my goals, and everything between. To feel your life is not your own exacts a heavy toll.
And thus these days I try to be an architect of Self, constructing for myself a life with fabrics of my choosing, with open spaces, cheerful colours, alignment and good balance, and windows high to let in light and get fresh air diffusing.
The new design that I have chosen differs from the last for it was old and broken down and did not serve me well. A demolition was requir’d to start again from scratch, enabling me to craft a brighter life in which to dwell.
The blueprint is not without flaws, amendments sometimes needed, but such it is when one attempts to craft bespoke designs. And it is worth the effort and inevitable headaches to know that I am fashioning a life that’s truly mine.
I accidentally jumped ahead yesterday, and wrote my response to Day 16’s prompt (“unbowed and unapologetic”) before I’d actually attempted this Day 15 theme.
This Poetry Challenge is an open challenge, and one that need not be completed in linear fashion from Prompt 1–30. However, linearly is how I had opted to procede — until some force of unseen wisdom (or just my own poor mathematics) suddenly lifted me off course yesterday, disrupting my intended trajectory.
I’m a believer in things happening for a reason, though, so there was either something in my “Day 16” poem (“Shouting into the Storm”) that I needed to work through yesterday, or something in this one that is particularly pertinent to me today!
I plan to pick up the linear path where I left off and to write my prompted poem for Day 17 (“allowing innocence to be reborn”) tomorrow — unless the universe has other ideas, or my psyche other things to process!
Throughout the month of June, I‘m taking the Know Thyself, Heal Thyself 30 Day Poetry Challenge, with thanks to Diana C. Thanks also to Tree Langdon for inspiring me to take part.
Tagging David Rudder William J Spirdione Lindsay Soberano-Wilson Aaron Quist Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) Galit Birk, PhD Hilda Carroll Denise G Jack Lincoln Laurie Perez Desiree Driesenaar Patrick M. Ohana Edward Riley Carolyn Riker Christina M. Ward Sherry McGuinn Eva Rotolo Sarah L. Harvey Dr. Preeti Singh Haikuster Gaby Rogut James G Brennan Anthony O’Dugan Jeff Ehren Dan J Jac Harmony Spyder Terry Trueman Michael Burg, MD (AKA Medium Michael Burg) Simran Kankas Ann Marie Steele PoetChris Kira Dawn Dr. Fatima Imam Jennifer McDougall Caroline de Braganza Dr Mehmet Yildiz Denise Larkin Kent Clark Will Hull Kiki Wellington Pretheesh Presannan and anyone else who might be interested in taking the challenge (or flagging it for the future)*.
If you would like to try the challenge yourself, visit the link below for each of the prompts.
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Jupiter Grant is a self-published author, blogger, narrator, and audiobook producer. Buy me a coffee here: https://ko-fi.com/jupitergrant
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