Ever Forward #NPM2018

A found poem from Mornings Like This:  Found Poems
by Annie Dillard

April is National Poetry Month, a month to read, write, and celebrate poetry. My plan is to write found poems every day most days in April.  Found poetry is a type of poetry in which the poet takes words, phrases, and beautiful language from existing texts and arranges and rearranges them in a new way, creating a unique meaning.

There are moments when I have been afraid of the unknown, of being outside of my comfort zone, and of going upstream, against the current when the rest of the world is paddling in another direction.  Last night as I was looking through my magazine clips, I began working with these words,

...and this is what I found.