Twelve Lines #201
Late, but great...
Welcome to Poetry as a Warm-up. We continue to write a daily long-form post as 2025 goes on, but for ease of access, and to allow those people who want to read these pieces WITHOUT having to pile through the blog content, we’ll have the poems as a separate entity going forward. They will also reappear in various guises across the year ‘in different forms’.
The first one is now available to read via this link.
I’ve only now finished my editing for the day. It’s been a useful and productive day. If you’re reading this and hoping for MMXCI, you’ll have it in the morning.
For now, here is a poem about rejecting comfort.
Long Jump
when there is nothing except the longing knowing what is there waiting on the other side why are you hesitant let the fates decide in the end there may be nothing when you land all this only a step improvement so wide you'll wonder why it was left so long
