Stone Soup Croutons, 4-30-25: Future Support

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.

 

I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

 

Toni Rose closed out National Poetry Month this past Wednesday. I'm glad we had her back. Check out the video, which also has info on how to support her. 

A lot going on this week. Some of it seeped into the poem. Some didn't. 

Thanks for reading.

Future Support

 

Peace kept 

through faith 

that violence works.

 

This Spring 

where nothing
melts or ripens. 

 

In family home

with much more

than one. 

Today's sci-fi

tells us harmony

already happened.

 

In today's future,

we'll be laid 
where we sit,

 

ashes spread 

over where 

we're eating.

 

We can blame

each other

for losing it all,

 

our gloves to 

the snow, our 

food to overseas.

Or we can thank 

each other for

meeting here

 

moments before

listening to 

woman's words

 

turn to song 

before return

of tornado.

 

Music ebbs

just before 

wind hits.

 

Silence so loud

you don't notice

storm's rage,

 

Lyrics you don't

ever have to

remember. 

 

Start again on

a tomorrow 

less painful.

 

Special thanks to Mary Jennings, Ron Bremner, Rusty Rose, Jan Rowe, Richard Spisak, Robert Fleming, Jon Wesick, Bryan Franco, Bil Lewis, James Van Looy and special feature Toni Rose.