Feast & Famine

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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry



Feast and famine
 are both folded
 sloppily side by side
 in my suitcase of life
I could take them out
iron the feast and 
try to throw out 
the famine
but
they both
would find a way...back into my baggage....they always do...somewhere down 
the road up ahead...something reminds me...of the taste of hunger
and I feel the weight...of its garment...against my belly...it is there
wanted or not
the lone wolf
standing before me
yet also a collection 
of keepsakes 
like hymns 
never forgotten
unseen blessings
each a song
I could never have 
written on my own
offerings of learning
that only  
a certain poverty
could teach
lessons
I never would have
 asked for
but each is a gift 
still filling
my heart
with a gentle 
strength.

©Carrie Van Horn 2020

Lucky

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Luck is a wild bird that no one ever sees up in the sky
she is allusive like a magician's hands
and faster than a buzzing fly

Some say they have seen her just before rolled dice have passed
while others have heard her flapping wings
just after a near-miss crash

Everyone wants to get a glimpse  and hold her within their grasp
but none can truly catch her unless in that split second
she is surely their's to have.


Note:
I just wrote a poem about something I have little belief in.  Yes one may have some luck at cards and dice games, but as far as the bigger things in life, I believe in blessings.  Some may say I am lucky to be alive.  I have out lived in years most of my cousins, some second cousin, my brother, and my Mom.  What I think is this; we are lucky to have guardian angels, and those angels sometimes give us second chances in this life.  God has blessed me with more time.  May I use it wisely.  That is my ultimate wish and prayer.

©Carrie Van Horn 2019