Reflect + Repair is a creative healing community, supporting artists and fostering belonging.

Reflect + Repair believes in the healing power of words. 2020/2021 brought unprecedented challenges — personally, professionally, politically — and it was different for each of us. This site features original poems written in response to your prompts. What felt impossible in 2020/2021? What was empowering? Surprising? Upsetting? Disarming? Share your topic below and we’ll do our best to honor it.

I want a poem about ________.

 

Sample Poems (Haiku) So Far

 

what does mortal man

know of a goddess just now

measuring her wings

— On Surrender

 

deep in liquid thought

treading in the undertow

glint of golden air

— On Loneliness, Paranoia, Anxiety

shudder to shutter

no place for polite lenses

where we snap awake

— On Reflection

 

praising the mother

empowering us to rise

one bite at a time

— On Sourdough As Salve

 

i brought my paddle

want to play doubles? haven’t

scored in quite a while

— On Discovering Pop Tennis At Venice Beach

 

a cherub on earth

plump with possibility

necklace of new stars

— On Birth

 

spill of raw sunrise

signals in the thinning clouds

of warm tomorrows

— On Nature As Respite

 

we swim naked in

a basin we built, filled with

everything we missed

— On Reconnecting