Day 15
Prompt: take a look at @StampsBot, and become inspired by the wide, wonderful, and sometimes wacky world of postage stamps. For example, while it certainly makes sense that China would issue a stamp featuring a panda, it’s less clear to us why the Isle of Man should feel the need to honour 2001: A Space Odyssey in stamp form. From Romanian mushrooms to Sudanese weavers to the Marshall Islands getting far too excited over personal computing, stamps are a quasi-lyrical, quasi-bizarre look into what different cultures (or at least their postal authorities) hold dear.
perfect arches scrawled across broken skies,
the ghost-like wafts of pearl cirrus caught
chasing dreams where there was only blue.
sacred nature’s seal on our soul.
We open it to peer inside at mirrors,
curving spaceless, excluding nothing at all,
and yet we only feel the borders around us,
the fences we built to keep all dangers out
now working to shield us shut within.
The number 55 marks our final year,
impatient like two runners interposed.
Deutschland stamps us in one country,
the place of our birth, a retrospective.
seeking to stretch as far as we can go,
follow this many coloured hope of ours
to travel this endless maze back to ourselves
and all those things we find meaningful,
but it can close upon itself just as easily
if we are looking the wrong way,
Mit Gutem Gewissen.
How fun that you found a stamp that goes with the prompt from Poetry Non-stop I wrote to on the sixth: https://experiencewriting.com/2024/04/06/poetry-focus/ I like how you described the envelope as a cage.
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