With Love from my Corporate Keyboard
Poems (& other pretty things) that meet me at my corporate keyboard.
With Love from my Corporate Keyboard is a collection of poems and prose (and probably short story scenes) that meet me while I work my corporate job.
(For you know, words have a cheeky way of interrupting your day. They don’t go to work or raise children or go to the bathroom, so they don’t know how inconvenient their timing is to us when they visit in the middle of an email. But I think I can forgive them for that, for they are such pretty things).
Over the years I have found that my favourite little poems come along when I’m really not expecting them. A certain word, or the way the morning light makes patterns on the wall, is usually the bread crumb I follow to the story that is ready to be told.
With Love from my Corporate Keyboard is a new series I’m starting every Tuesday and will be the first of my work to be offered exclusively for paid subscribers only.
Membership is just $5 a month, so for a cup of coffee you can read as much poetry as you like.
Below is a short, poetic reflection on lessons I’ve recently learnt.
I pray that it finds its natural place in you - whether for the shelf, as a meal, or to fold up and put in your pocket.
I am learning to be ok
with who I am and how I am,
how I unfold (naturally),
like a tulip toward the sun.
I am learning to be ok
with slowing down,
and softening,
with silence and obscurity.
I am learning that each day
has its own mercies
usually tucked away (hiding)
within a smile or the Kookaburra’s song.
I am learning to walk the paths of Eden,
ancient paths of womanhood
where hands (and bellies and minds) create
and where beauty can rest,
like a dove upon a branch.
I am learning the gentle rhythms
of stitches and knits
and the therapy they bring,
instead of scrolling and clicks.
I am learning that the deepest nourishment
comes from both the ground,
and the hands (and hearts)
of those who serve it.
I am learning how to put down the heaviness
of what protected me yesterday
and to sit, instead
at the feet of today (willingly).
I am learning how to love
who and how I am
from the warming embrace
of simplicity.
with love from my corporate keyboard
x Zara