Poetry & Ponderings with Julia Fehrenbacher

Poetry & Ponderings with Julia Fehrenbacher

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Poetry & Ponderings with Julia Fehrenbacher
Poetry & Ponderings with Julia Fehrenbacher
It Could Be

It Could Be

A poem

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Julia Fehrenbacher
Oct 14, 2024
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It Could Be

a smile or a poem. Or new day light 
that finds you through an open 
window. Or, perhaps, remembering 
that tomorrow was never promised.

It could be the scent
of baking bread, the first chill
of autumn that has you reaching
for your favorite wool sweater. Or maybe 
it’s the noticing of how easily
red maple becomes and lets go.

It could be taking today off
to be still, to un-know,
to notice. To practice loosening 
your troubled grip
because grace can never
be gripped or grabbed.

It could be choosing
softness in a world grown hard 
because you’re tired of hurting 
and being hurt and mercy
is the best kind of medicine.

It could be an invitation to gather 
around the listening table
where every color is beautiful, where 
there is no blame,
no shame, no them—no other.

it could be
It could be any of these things
or no thing at all, that remind you that, really, 
only a few things matter—

Food. Trees. Words. Love. Mostly love.

Above poem is one of 99 poems in my book "Staying in Love"

"Staying in Love" signed copies

To listen to the audio version of “It Could Be,” (read by me) & for an invitation to write, click below….

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