By Flapper Press Poetry Café:
The Flapper Press Poetry Café is happy to announce a new series called TODAY'S POEM, highlighting one poem per article—that's right, just one—from poets from around the world.
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Today we feature a poem by one of our regularly contributing poets, Hiram Larew, founder of the informal Poetry X Hunger initiative created in 2017 as a way to bring two areas of interest—poetry and hunger prevention—together. Upon retiring from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he helped guide international agriculture programs, he noticed that relatively little poetry about hunger was available. Believing in the power of poetry to touch hearts and minds, he launched Poetry X Hunger as a way to encourage poets to write about hunger. To read more about Hiram, visit his websites:
"To the Limit" first appeared in WriteNowLit and will show up in his upcoming collection This Much Very, due out in January 2025 from Alien Buddha Press.
From Hiram:
Beyond headlines or turmoil or vote count, there's the moon.
Alongside many celestial relatives, it offers a timeless infinite as balm.
Or, if not some solace, at least a silent presence. Which, in these times, is such a welcomed friend. Yes, the poem hopes to shake a lunar hand.
To the Limit
Someone asks what I would fight for …
Well I’d fight for the moon in a heartbeat
With its halo of wisdom
Its cloud-cover of guess
And its wish to
Even its merely
Yes I’d march for its glowing
And I’d defend the moon with longings
With anything I could muster
No limits --
To keep it up over
For harvests or phases
Even for no one
Then if allowed to
I’d rejoice in its quiet apart from
That always wins me
For as long as what matters
Lets me --
The moon’s mix of far away but right there
All gathered around
First published in WriteNowLit
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