Kristine Ludewig-Schnur

Exciting news!

FITNESS FOR POETS weekly verse is now a MONTHLY letter as I shift focus to publishing my first book– an illustrated memoir about dancing away those early Art school days.

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I Propose, Repose!

I Propose, Repose!

Time to give your seeds
a chance to swell,
cells to split
your molecules heated in
a last hurrah, sweltering humid
threaded with 
cool…

Consider this:
DON’T work on your Art.
DON’T work on anything at all,

just lie there like a board

until you are! with absolutely 
nothing to do  
but 

breathe
a sweet sigh of relief. Free!
from your 
own expectations of 
where you ought to be 
by Now. 

It’s guaranteed!
(as few things are) 
that as soon as you 
STOP

All the Time you need,
whether sweet or frittered,
will fly by!
in the form of that Thing 
you’ve been
meaning to do 
all this time,

but never had any.

Use it wisely!
Harvest is nigh.


(You did rest a bit, right?)