Friday Writings #141: Being Bound / Breaking Free

 

 

Hello again, dear Word Weavers –

I recently took part in a book launch for Tight Bindings, Sarah Temporal's first poetry book. She's a local poet and friend who has done much for poets here by creating both regular performance occasions under the title 'Poets Out Loud' and a mentoring program for young, emerging poets. Sarah has also won awards at national and regional poetry slams.  Here is a photo of her onstage at the launch, and one of the cover of her book.

 

Typical of her generosity and inclusiveness, she invited five friends, whom she described as having been on her journey with her, to open the program at her launch by reading a poem each from her new book. I was one of them, and chose a beautiful love poem set in nature. 

Tight Bindings includes poems about the birth of her daughter, reminiscences of her father, excursions into nature, her husband's double lung transplant (due to cystic fibrosis) and a new take on several fairy tales, notably Rapunzel. The overall theme concerns breaking free of our various kinds of 'tight bindings.'

The launch was incorporated into a Poets Out Loud event, so the second part of the evening was a slam with that theme: bound and/or free. Which put into my mind the idea of also using it here.

So, yes, your optional prompt this time is to write about being bound and/or breaking free.

You know the drill –

Guidelines: Poetry or prose, old or new, on prompt or not, 369 words maximum (excluding title). Post to your blog, and link to that one post only, on Mister Linky below.

We encourage you to read and comment on other people's linked writings too, and to leave a comment below if you have anything you'd like to say to the team, the group, or anyone in the group.

Next week, our Magaly will invite us to write a letter (in poetry or prose) to our bodies.