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Mindful Poetry Gathering - November 20th, 2024

A portal to new ideas and new poetry.

Thank you to all who attended our Mindful Poetry Gathering! We listened and contemplated the poem "Refrigerator, 1957" by Thomas Lux. Special guest Krittika Sharma opened our session with a meditation with a short excerpt from a death meditation (drawn from her experience in end-of-life healthcare), and Poet, curator, behavior researcher, all round vulnerability-loving human, Shivani Gupta facilitated our exploration of the poem.

PROMPT:

  • What is a place you go to in hope or hunger? 
  • What is the shape of your grief: a museum, a bird, a door, a road?
  • If your room was a museum, what would your things say about you? What is lost, what is preserved?
  • What was a simple thing you longed for as a child?
  • What makes a full life?

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Connect with Shivani Gupta:

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Read poems created by the group below. And send us your poem to include!

Copyright © for all the poems below belong to their respective authors. 

ShivaniguptaKrittikasharmaRefrigerator1957

I Am My Family's Historian
by Bryce Kessler

I am my family's historian,
and everything goes into The Binder.

Birth, marriage, death, proof
mortgages, wills, immigration
emigration, pay stubs, utility bills,
grave plots, receipts for the family piano
and any photos I can dig up like
an archeologist finding a prehistoric bone.

Turning paper scraps into museum galleries.
Finding historical patterns and
rediscovering connections to our shared histories

All for most people to ask
"Why are you doing this?"
I shrug, not quite sure,

But some connection to the history of the world
feels so scarce, rare, and precious.

Because if I'm not remembering, then who will?

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