April Poetry Writing Month – Day 5

From the threshold….

We are shaped by everything we have lived – loss, love, memory, and transformation. We take each step believing it serves our own or another’s best interest. Pausing. Stilling. Sharing. Becoming. Recognising and accepting our stories.

Continuing in a body-centric journey.

🍃List Poem, here, is a free verse with repetition, structured as a collection of ideas and images centred around the theme, and ending with a ‘twist’.

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April Poetry Writing Month – Day 4

… continuing the journey from body to memory to reflection: evolving story of presence, memory, and becoming.

Today’s poem flowed from stillness and observation, listening to what the body remembers, sensing the lingering chill of winter in early summer, and recognising how age, memory, and growth coexist.

Am I a strawberry, frozen in time? The tree reminds me: I am rooted. We are our identities -shifting, freezing, hibernating, and rising again and again. And that’s what it means to grow beautifully.

🍃Haibun is a Japanese form that blends prose and haiku into a reflective poetic journey.

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April Poetry Writing Month – Day 3

When I connect with my body, moving as a free spirit, centring and finding my core, I begin to unfold countless quiet realisations. 

What once felt abstract slowly becomes remembrance. Memories begin to tell their stories – A bodily held inheritance of love, revealed through sensory memory, years later. Each poem is a continuation of the last, unfolding as one quiet, evolving story.

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Having begun NaPoWriMo 2026 with a body-centred theme, I am gradually falling into a natural rhythm, step by step.

Today’s 15 minutes of writing led me inward, to a quiet realisation – this is not just a shared memory, but something claimed, and lived within. A part of me that is quietly centered, yet expansive, unfolding in small, attentive movements. 

This is a continuation from Day 1 – a story of presence, sensation, and the body’s memory, explored one mindful step at a time.

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