A DIFFERENT HOLDING PATTERN
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
If I am to hold the world in my heart,
then let me hold it the way leaves hold sunshine,
trapping the energy not for the sake of holding it,
but to transform it into nourishment.
Though the process isn’t simple, it’s common.
All around the globe, in every season,
leaves hold and synthesize
whatever the day gives them.
On a day when the energy of the world
seems too much to hold,
let me bid my heart turn
like a leaf to the sun
and make sugar.
The way Rilke turned grief into sonnets.
The way Sibelius turned war into song.
(My thanks to Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, via A Hundred Falling Veils.)
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I first discovered Rosemerry through Poetry of Presence, so thank you for "introducing me" to one of my soul guides for the past few years. I loved the 4 week course with her that you hosted last year and wish I could join for this upcoming session. I'm teaching on Wednesdays this fall. I've signed up for Rosemerry's offering in January through One Spirit, though. So many ways to transform that light into nourishment! Thank you, too, Phyllis, for being a steady soul guide to me and so many others! 💕💕