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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: You Belong
The way grass belongs to the meadow—
how without it, the meadow
would not be meadow—
this is the way you belong in my heart.
Not that I’ve made a space for you here,
more that you’ve helped make my heart what it is,
and without you, my heart is not my heart.
I cradle you here as in a nest of wheat—
soft home, humble home, ever rewoven
to fit the changing shape of you.
It’s not true our hearts are our own—
they’re symbiotic as meadows in spring.
The heart exists for who grows in it.
Who am I? Who am I?
You, my sun, my grass, my wind.
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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, teacher, speaker and writing facilitator who co-hosts the Emerging Form podcast on creative process. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, and Carnegie Hall stage. Her most recent poetry collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding.
Copyright 2024. From The Unfolding (Wildhouse, 2024).
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What a beautiful poem, thank you Rosemerry
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A perfect love poem–“without you, my heart is not my heart.”
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I’m so glad YOU are in my heart, shaping it, dear Lisa
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I agree. I love Rosemerry’s poems.
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I will read this poem to my husband tonight. Thank you for this lovely Valentine’s Day gift!
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Thanks, Meg! Rosemerry’s poems are so clear, so healing.
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So often we hear how the heart contains an entire universe, but I am reminded how the heart trembles when love is afoot, or aches at loss or longing. Rosemerry has brought the heart down to earth, “the nest of wheat”, “the humble home” where we sing our joys and shed our tears. There is nothing that equals the power of a heart let loose.
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There is nothing that equals the power of a heart let loose. Oh so true, sir.
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Beautiful comment, Marc. Thank you.
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Thank you, Rosemerry for that poem. That little song of — and for –love.
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Yes! A perfect Valentine’s Day poem…
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Always wonderful to begin a day with Rosemerry ❤️❤️❤️
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Indeed
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Thanks, Rosemerry, for creating this hymn of joy. It brings a blessing for those readers with whom you share your loving nest of wheat.
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Rosemerry has done it again. Another inspiring an loving poem. “It’s not true our hearts are our own— / they’re symbiotic as meadows in spring. / The heart exists for who grows in it.” Quite.
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Yes
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