(Joseph MacRae, published in Legacy lines: Poems inspired by LGBTQI+ Poets of the Past, edited by Daisy Barrett-Nash, Equal Arts, April, 2025. Prompt from September 4, 2024, New Moon of Elul and the (above) Unburnt Bush Icon of the Mother of God. Image from here.)
Bear-Love
Love is a pot of honey
Pooh bear would understand —
Inner sweetness.
Who’s guarding your jar?
[Note:Sticky paw prints throughout the kitchen,
they were planted I tell you, planted!
They’re not from me.]
*From prompt: freewrite as inspired by “love is ___”, after considering Edwin Morgan's The Unspoken. From Daisy Barrett-Nash’s Legacy Lines (Writers at Play), September 4, 2024.
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