Codex – Letters to a Young Poet
(Spring Edition)
Everything is gestation and then bringing forth.
The seed dares to split so the bloom may rise.
What part of you is breaking open to grow?
Try to love the questions themselves.
New leaves don't rush. They unfold with trust.
What question deserves your patience, not your urgency?
Go into yourself.
The thaw reveals roots that were always there.
What inner truth is emerging now?
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.
Spring does not ask permission to arrive. It simply does.
Where can you allow change without needing control?
No feeling is final.
Even sorrow softens under the cherry blossom sky.
What emotion are you ready to release into renewal?
The only journey is the one within.
The world blooms again, as you begin again inside.
What first step is quietly waiting to be taken?
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude.
Even the flower opens alone, and is no less beautiful.
What part of your solitude might be sacred?
Don’t be afraid to suffer.
The rain does not regret its fall. It becomes the field.
How has your pain prepared your ground for growth?
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
The storm clears the sky. The sprout pierces the dark.
What part of life are you ready to welcome in full?
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses only waiting to see us act…
Courage wears petals too, not just armor.
What gentle strength are you being asked to show?
Live the questions now.
The bird does not ask if it should sing. It sings.
What voice in you is ready to be heard?
Art too is just a way of living.
To bloom, to breathe, to become— this is also art.
What everyday act could you approach as sacred today?
Gsry D. 
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Julie L. B. 
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