As If I Was my Own Guru, I Tell Myself

by Janina Aza Karpinska

we all make mistakes

keep going - laugh at it all

use as many tricks as possible

speed up the troubling scenario

bleach out the colour and make it small

ascribe all the rôles to different animals

(being lectured by a rhinoceros is bound to be ridiculous

or given marching orders by a guinea pig or a mouse)

pleasure should be part of everyday life, so

add ribbons, bugle beads, glitter, sequins,  

a bouquet of flowers bought for yourself;

admire the colours, inhale the fragrance

take action - anything – begin a project:

pictures of doors; collecting blue things

Image credit: Jas Rolyn on Unsplash

(it's amazing how one thing leads to

another) use intuition to make life

happen

become your own best friend, one

you wish you had, with wisdom

enough to listen, then say: it's

never too late to start again 

keep going - laugh at it all

use as many tricks as possible

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Janina Aza Karpinska

Janina Aza Karpinska achieved an M.A. in Creative Writing & Personal Development, with Merit, at Sussex University, and 1st prize in the Cannon Mouth's Poetry Competition. Her work has featured in Drawn to the Light; Poems in the Waiting Room Ekphrastic Review; Raising the Fifth; The London Reader; Cold Signal; Magma, and Epistemic Lit among others. She lives on the south coast of England.