5 word poems are something I used to do a lot around 20 years ago and am getting back to again. A person gives me 5 random words, and I write a poem with them. I write these very spontaneously and am often surprised by what comes out of me. Just to get started, I got 5 words from Chat GPT: Mirror, Fever, Thread, Doorway, and Salt.
Mystics say life is mirror,
A reflection of my internal world…
My thoughts, feelings, and intentions.
And I see it all.
The beauty, the suffering, the love
All ugly beautiful.
The truth is beautiful
And exists only in the immaterial.
Like salt from the sea,
We take only this with us.
I’ve learned there is nothing in the material world
That compares to the truth,
That can close the God-shaped hole
In my heart and soul.
We yearn with a fever to be one,
To experience oneness
In this world of separation.
We see no thread connecting us to the glorious
When truly we are forever one.
I look for the doorway everywhere,
The way out,
The way to peace.
And the way is simply through and through
Time and time again.
Truth & Poetry 