I Take This Day: A Mercury Retrograde Poem

A Poem for Mercury Retrograde

© 2015 by Joyce Mason

I take this day:

to rest, relax, review, research

to revive myself

for more active living.

I take this day:

to honor the god Hermes

who energizes

my quicksilver mind,

who wings my messages

across the world.

I take this day:

to let my biological hard drive crash

or at least idle;

to open myself up

to the gift of silence

and the gear “park.”

I take this day:

a day at a time

every Mercury Retrograde

till I can believe nature

and the cosmos in symphony

about the real rhythm of life.

I take this day:

and with each day I take,

I grow more tolerant

of days and weeks

of downtime,

till I put every day

of Mercury Retrograde

on my calendar

and plan ahead

for three-and-a-half weeks

of what the Divine

knows best:

Every creation needs days

of rest.

~~~

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