Hello! Today for Poetic Justice, I’ll be sharing a lovely poem by Elayna. I hope you enjoy reading it and learning a bit about the reason behind it. If you do, you can read more about Elayna below and follow her on social media below.
Poetic Justice is a month long event, beginning April 1st to April 30th in honor of National Poetry Month. Throughout April there will be interviews, guest posts, excerpts and other poetic posts. I hope you will follow along. To read the introductory post, you can find out more here.
Becoming
Twilight and dawn,
are my beloved times
for the same reason
my heart belongs
to fall and spring.
Neither is complete,
they exist in flux,
always in between
in the process of becoming
something they weren’t before,
but now will be until
a new day breaks.
I like to think
my spirit is a season
like fall or spring
and my heart is a time
like twilight or dawn.
For every fallen seed,
a new something grows,
and for every night
that the sun sinks into the sky,
in the morning, it always
and ever returns to rise.
ABOUT THIS POEM
This particular piece has been on my mind a lot this National Poetry Month, as spring starts to bloom all around. I wrote it as fall was letting out its dying breath back in December of 2017. I was on a trip to Seattle, my first time visiting the Pacific Northwest, and I remember writing it as I was sitting in this little rooftop garden that overlooked the bay and the Olympic mountains. I wrote so many new poems that week, and it was during that trip that I made the firm decision to put Becoming, and others, together into a collection I wanted to release in 2018. That project went on to become Unraveling Light, my debut book of poetry that this piece is from. So it felt fitting, as this week is the one year anniversary of the book’s Kickstarter campaign, to revisit it. It’s a reminder for me that who I am is this ever growing, changing, and evolving being, that takes time, death, and rebirth to become.
ABOUT THE POET
Elayna Mae Darcy is a Hufflepuff artist of many mediums—poetry, YA fiction, podcasting, and filmmaking to name a few. A proud Philadelphian, she holds a degree in Film and Media Arts from Temple University, and currently lives in Germantown, where she is a mother of many plushies and fictional characters. Her work has been previously published in Wizards in Space literary magazine, and she has spoken at a variety of events, including Kickstarter’s Summer of Poetry, and San Diego Comic Con.
Website: https://elaynamusings.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/elaynamae
IG: https://www.instagram.com/elaynamusings/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/elaynamusings
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