POETRY / POETRY PROMPT

Seek the Silver Lining

Equanimity can be found if you alter your perspective

Perhaps there is another way to see this situation?

Everything’s not necessarily a complete disaster.

Re-evaluate the issue from a wholly new perspective

So that you can achieve a sense of calm a little faster.

Put you inner eye to use, and change your usual vision

Even though things may at first look strange from this new angle.

Challenge what you think you know, and seek the silver lining.

Transform the way you look at life, let anxieties untangle.

I often struggle with this skill, and find my mind will turn to

Vexatious thoughts that panic me and make me feel defective.

Equanimity‘s attainable with a shifting of my mindset, and

Silver linings can be found when I alter my perspective.

With thanks to Sahil Patel for creating this poetry prompt challenge:

Day 16’s prompt is “write a poem about when you had a completely different perspective on life”:

No-pressure, obligation-free invitations to Dr. Preeti Singh Dr. Fatima Imam Josh Balerite Acol A Rustic Mind (Manali Desai) Prasant Trivedi Bhavna Narula Orla Kenny Anchal Melanie J. Carolyn Hastings Kyomi O’Connor TC Hails Karen Falcon Adelia Ritchie Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) Anthony O’Dugan Jeff Ehren Jack Lincoln Denise G Tree Langdon Jennifer McDougall Skye Mo’ipulelehua Kahoali’i Will Hull Edward Riley Sherry McGuinn Gaby Rogut Lindsay Soberano-Wilson Lee Ameka Sarah Paris Laurie Perez David Rudder Spyder Diana C. Galit Birk, PhD Kiki Wellington Dave Logan Rhonda Marrone Haikuster Roz Warren Denise Larkin Tre L. Loadholt Colleen Millsteed K.Kumar John Uzuegbu Joel A. Johnson Giulietta Passarelli Nora Dane Anthi Psomiadou Michael Burg, MD (AKA Medium Michael Burg) Christina M. Ward Eva Rotolo Vincent Pisano Carolyn F. Chryst, Ph.D. Samantha Lazar Kimberly Hampton Nilsson Kent Clark and anyone else who would like to join in on this prompt. (Apologies to those who have already participated and whom I haven’t read yet— I’m a few days behind, but will catch up asap!)

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