Day 750 of the Daily Poems. That’s a goodly number. And our poet today, Janice Dempsey, is in love with empty spaces that can nourish new thoughts and ideas …
I’m in love with empty spaces
gaps and holes and small hiatuses,
virgin canvas, clean white pages
frames and arches holding landscapes,
windows, doors and buttressed bridges.
I watch the world from bony portals –
take in its claims on ears and eyes,
let it fill my brain’s synapses
and seed the place where thoughts arise.
But I love silences and pauses,
ellipses, brackets and revisions
where ideas that creep in to shelter
can root and come to new fruition.
Janice Dempsey