Blessed are...

As the winter solstice approaches, a poem becomes abeatitudes.

Kaitlin Curtice, one of my favorige writers and yteachers, has been leading us through a week of poetry though her The Liminality Journal. Kaitlin poems and intro prompts are so powerful and beautiful, and the poems shared by an array of poets each day is so inspring. Today’s prompt was underdog, and my poem became a beatitudes. Humbly offered here.

Blessed are…

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Blessed are the underdogs,

From they will lead us to places where all creatures run free.

Blessed are the gentle strong,

For they are the healers we will need as the sandcastles collapse.

Blessed are the compassionate,

For their action with passion will light the fires of justice.

Blessed are the kind.

For they will lead the resistance.

Blessed are those who grieve and mourn,

For they know the beauty of belonging.

Blessed are the patient,

For they will be waiting to lead us across the bridges,

Blessed are the joyful

For they will remind us how to laugh.

Blessed are the hopeful,

For they will replenish and sustain our wells of desire.

Blessed are the two spirit and non-binary,

For they show us how to live beyond boxes and societal constructs

that become our prisons.

Blessed are the prophetic,

For they witness to the atrocities raining down on us,

and to a world where peace and balance are possible.

Blessed are the tearful,

For their rivers of emotion will wash us clean.

Blessed are the dreamers,

For they will turn our nightmares into visions of grace.

Blessed are the grateful,

For they will fill our hearts with redemptive possibility.

Blessed are the humble,

For they will dissolve the narcissism and self-absorption that threaten our planet.

Blessed are the Sophia,

For they dance with wisdom even in the deepest ashes.

Blessed are the lovers,

For they will see beauty in the gentlest of movements.

Blessed are the loved,

For they will know they are enough.

Blessed are those who love as Agape,

For on that foundation the world shall once again be home.