In The Twilight Just Beginning
In The Twilight Just Beginning
“Comes A Moment” Bardic Poetry by Joseph S. Plum
Welcome:
Greetings and welcome to American Bardic Poet.
“Comes A Moment”
This week’s poem is a small section from a longer series of stanzas known as “Comes A Moment.” When I was a child, I remember reciting this poem with the poet in a silly way, acting out the poem in a sort of charades performance with my brothers. The poet was helping us memorize the lines by making it fun…and funny.
My father’s poetry was always at the center of our life growing up. Not many people knew he was a poet then. But he has always been comforted and consumed by the words in his head. I remember he told me once - that he remembers reciting a poem in its entirety when he was only ten years old. I believe him.
Good journey,
(The poet’s daughter.)
comes a moment
in the twilight just beginning
there is an instant never ending
when you go off and spinning
out across the Milky Way
in the darkness always turning
towards the light of another morning
comes a moment without warning
when you’re finally on your way
while here
in this dim light of evening
i lie half asleep
rocking in the cradle
of another day
Read about the poet and the bees here.
Read my post regarding punctuation and editing of the poems here.
Read the poem “Wild Wisdom” and a short essay I wrote about the forest here.
This is a page from the book, I Believe in Seeds: Affirmations for Rewilding, made possible by a grant from the BeWildReWild Fund at Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation. This book combines my watercolor paintings with Dad’s poems, and gave me a chance to try something different with punctuation. Also, it was such a beautiful moment when Dad saw my paintings and realized his poems were part of his daughter’s artwork.
I’m grateful.
I’ll write more next week. Hope to see you again then. Please consider sharing this post with someone you think may be interested in Dad’s poetry.
🙏🏼 Thank you for gathering here. May it be a blessing. 🙏🏼
About the Poet
Joseph S. Plum is a poet in the bardic tradition. He lives off-grid in rural Iowa and composes his unique chant-like oral poetry for fascinated audiences around the world. Joe has over 16 hours of oral poetry memorized in his head. He pulls from this collection of rhyming lines to compose poems according to the energy of the audience listening. Joe does all of this without writing the poems down on paper or holding any notes.
Joe’s daughter, Emily Lupita, typed up his poems over the years and launched Dreaming Deer Press to publish his work. He now has nine poetry books for sale on Amazon that can be purchased on Joe’s website - here.
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