I'm thinking...

This is a Natalie Goldberg prompt I used in combination with color tiles during a Creative Writing Club meeting on March 14, 2023. I just now found the poem, and decided it was worth publishing!

I'm thinking of simple sorrow

    in sugarplum blue

I'm thinking of Mojave desert

    in surges of gold

I'm thinking of every doorway

    where everything begins

I'm thinking I'm too weak to fly

    but I can walk in the stony brook

I'm thinking of beating on the walls

    slowly and unafraid

I'm thinking I need toys of desperation

I'm thinking of how light moves into

    an unknown sea

I'm thinking of running down the road in a fringed jacket

    laughing and playful

sprouting my true colors

jazzy zigzags and singing

    songs not yet sung