Robert Gipe, a novelist who lives in Appalachia, on what might help...
We all crave honorable work at a living wage.
We want success tied to the success of the community.
We want to be safe.
We are weary of fear.
We are exhausted by hate.
We in Appalachia join our fellow Americans in asking:
Who will encourage our best selves?
Who will enable our joy?
Who will release the energy hiding in our hearts?
@Madken65 Marge Piercy's poem "To Be of Use"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use
last part:
"The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real."
@erose Sorry for delay in response, reading a long Kagan piece right now...
It was not a request, I was just citing your reflection as an extension of what I had said earlier regarding form...that's all
@Madken65 ok, yup... your comment about form plus comments about work & success, lead to memory & encouraged impulse to post poem. :)
=D
@Madken65 This flu has been exhausting (tho I feel i am finally recovering) so.. I'm slow, more than whatever is my usual.
@Madken65 not sure if that is a request or comment; but i like many meanings of flow, in reference to form or creative energies. If a request - please specify, not at my best at the moment, sorry!