poetry wednesday : who is your someone?

Rebeca Price The Journey

Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again

Painting their
black silhouettes
on an open sky.

Sometimes everything
has to be
inscribed across
the heavens

so you can find
the one line
already written
inside you.

Sometimes it takes
a great sky
to find that

small, bright
and indescribable
wedge of freedom
in your own heart.

Sometimes with
the bones of the black
sticks left when the fire
has gone out

someone has written
something new
in the ashes of your life.

You are not leaving
you are arriving.

-David Whyte

Someone has written something new in the ashes of your life.

Who is your someone?

Tell them.

(With thanks to Rebeca Price, who also created these images)

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About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

4 comments to " poetry wednesday : who is your someone? "
  • I have been having one of those seasons where it feels like everything is turning to ashes—I really needed to read this today, in the wake of fresh disappointment. Thank you.

  • Jan

    This is so apt for my life right now–thanks for seeing into my heart and recognizing its needs.

  • I love David Whyte. If you haven’t rad his book Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity (which is how I discovered him – I didn’t know he is a poet), I highly recommend it. He is an amazing writer. I think I must now get to know his poetry better! Thank you!

  • jylene

    beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

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