Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – Spirit Abounds https://spiritabounds.com Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:06:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spiritabounds.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Site-icon-web-32x32.jpg Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – Spirit Abounds https://spiritabounds.com 32 32 194300094 Belonging https://spiritabounds.com/belonging/ Tue, 28 May 2024 18:45:32 +0000 https://spiritabounds.com/?p=5285 Forgive me, please, when I,
thrilling in how much I love you,
believe you belong to me—
like a book or shirt or a ring.
Writing that short list,
it now seems strange
I believe I own anything.
I know well the unstitching of loss.
Let me learn to love you loosely
the way I love morning,
the way I love song,
the way I love hawks on the wing.
Let me love you the way
I love poems, startled
and grateful each time I find
it is I who belongs to them.

– Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

]]> 5285 Wonder https://spiritabounds.com/wonder/ Tue, 28 May 2024 18:41:58 +0000 https://spiritabounds.com/?p=5281 I wear my wonder
like old running shoes—
not elegant,
not sophisticated,
surprisingly inappropriate
in certain rooms.
I notice how others
sometimes wrinkle their noses
at a blatant sporting of wonder,
thinking, perhaps, I must be oblivious
to the dress code:
stilettos of apathy,
high heels of indifference,
boots of cool reserve.
But dang, this wonder
gets me where I need to go
every inch,
every mile, even
across the room.
When everywhere I step
is broken glass,
wearing this wonder
is the only reason
I can move at all.

– Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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