Stones for the River

Stones for the River

About the name of my second poetry blog, also written (like the previous poem) for Poetic Bloomings. But as it is not itself a 'small stone' kind of observation, it is posted here rather than there.

‘Small stones’ are observations,

pieces of mindful writing –

looking outside oneself 

for the beautiful, interesting or strange,

as if on a walk you found a stone,

brought it home and polished it.

Satya Robyn called them that

in 2010 when she invented them

and invited the world to play along

every day for a month. The world did,

creating a river of stones. Some of us 

continue. Mine are verse; it’s what I do.