Look

Look for your passion, they said.

Look straight ahead, they said.

Look at what you’ve accomplished, they said.

Look for what inspires you, they said.

Look at what inspires others, they said.

Look for the beauty, they said.

Look for the good, they said.

Look within, they said.

Look to how to be happy, they said.

Look to your heart, they said.

Look to the stars, they said.

Look to where your feet are planted, they said.

Look homeward, angel, they said.

Look to progress, they said.

Look to your elders, they said.

Look to your leaders, they said.

Look to your followers, they said.

Look to nature, they said.

Look to your left and your right, they said.

Look here, they said.

Look to wisdom, they said.

Look to truth, they said.

Instead,

I looked upward,

above the darkness.

And discovered light.

The editors of Tweetspeak Poetry are hosting a 30-Day, 30-Poem Challenge for Earth Month entitled, appropriately enough, Poetic Earth Month. Today, the featured poem is “Night” by Sara Teasdale. The poetry promptis writing a poem about looking for a lovely thing and finding it, perhaps using the catalog poemform.

Photograph: Sunrise begins at Laity Lodge, Leakey, Texas.