There
is No Clear View of What’s Ahead
There
is no crystal ball
clear
enough for us
to
peer ahead as if
watching
the dance
of
flowers and spring
breeze
through a window.
Even
the weatherman,
with
all his science can
only
forecast the next day
with
words of probability.
So
how can we chart
a
future world with precision?
With
an eye to the past
we
can and do chart
predictions,
trajectories from
today’s
errors and successes.
However,
using past experience
is
an imperfect navigational system.
But
of one thing we can be sure
as
we go into the future,
as
we do each night when
we
go to bed whether we
awake
to days that are
bright
or dystopian
or
a bit of both, we must
walk
ahead with HOPE
that
goodness and love
will
be ours if we seek
them,
all the days of
our
lives and of the life
of
planet earth.
Joan Leotta offers encouraging words on page and stage. Internationally published as essayist, poet, short story writer, novelist, she’s a multiple nominee for Pushcart and Best of Net. Publications include MacQueen’s Quinterly, One Art, Gargoyle, The Lake, Lothlorien, Ovunquesiamo, The Mackinaw, Ekphrastic Review, Yellow Mama, Impspired, and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. She also performs stories for youth and adult audiences with programs that highlight kindness, food, family, and strong women. Her one woman show as Louisa May Alcott” highlights Alcott’s development as a writer, activist, and time as a Civil War Nurse. Joan Leotta has also taught storytelling and writing, for the North Carolina Poetry Society, NC Writers Network, ND Humanities, and the London Arts-Based Research Center.
Joan Leotta
Author, Story Performer
“Encouraging words through Pen and Performance”
Folk, Fairy, and Personal Tales of friendship, kindness, food, family, and strong women.
Now also Presenting Author visits by Louisa May Alcott
As writer, Nominated for Pushcart, Best of Net, Best of Micro fiction, Western Peacemaker Award
Awardee in Presswomen, Robert Frost, Silver Arts, Dancing Poetry
"Feathers on Stone" poetry chapbook available from me and at
Other Joan Leotta Books
Languid Lusciousness with Lemon, Finishing Line Press (Amazon)
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