124th entry – 2022 Creativity Project
Penny Reigns
I have a penny
Stored deep within my pocket
It has no value
In today’s daily markets;
A relic of yesterday.
I am set thinking
That time like cursors blinking
Is quick insisting
That forward is all moving
Toward something yet unseen.
Hear the deft music
Playing, urging consistent
Movement surge today
Like pennies, time slips away,
Registers without delay.
I want this moment
And another and after,
Letting yesterday
Become a foreign rumor,
Living purpose, my dreams.
Go far, fast, and free
Find the meaning of all things
Meant to have being
Reaching for true liberty
Confident, courageous life.
Forever and ever
The penny like a melody
Reminds me to give
My best in times made like these
Because excellence matters.
Stand full unafraid
The past cannot drag backward
For velocity
Carries into each second
Such growing humanity.
© Jo Ann J. A. Jordan
Haphazard Creative 