Poem on a Post-It [3]: Do Better

Do Better

I really enjoy exploring the meanings of words in poetry, especially if I can be playful with sound while engaging with a serious topic.

Poetry is still a very new instrument among my forms of expression, but it seems to be the one that most wants to emerge whenever I write for pleasure. When I think I have an important message, I plan, structure, and write in essay form. This tends to be very much within my conscious awareness. When the deeper parts of my mind have something to say, often accessed after a meditation or a writing prompt, that is when the poems appear.

This was another from

Beth Kempton

’s #tinywinterpoems prompts. I am looking forward to starting her new class, Ink and Flame, next week - it’s exciting to wonder what is waiting to be written!

For today’s writing prompt:

1. Write down the first five ‘-ology’ words that come to mind

2. Choose your favourite of these five, and look up it’s dictionary definition

3. Close your eyes, and sit with it for a moment

4. Pick up your pen, and see what wants to be written

5. If you would like to, please share in the comments or tag me in your post!

Text only version:

Do Better, by Louise Morris

Anthropology need not be apology
for the failings of our people
concerned as it is
with the past 
and the present,
rather, it demands
that we Do Better
so that this planet we inhabit
may see peace
and prosperity
and potential
for the future of humanity.