Inner Voice

In response to Invitation to Write #13, I have created a fairly straightforward form. It is an idea I have been playing with for some time, and it is finally coming together. You take an inspirational line, from a quote or any other source, and after using it as a the first line of the poem, you start each of the subsequent lines with the words from the quote. The first word in the opening line then becomes the first word in line 2, the second word in the opening line becomes the first word in line 3, and so on. Please enjoy Inner Voice, with the opening line from Rumi.

Inner Voice
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

When the inner voice rises to the surface
you must release and allow your truth
Do not let others silence you from the
things your heart cries out,
from the thoughts and words which haunt
your inner being, which nourish your
soul. No one has this power.
You speak freely and
feel it in your blood, in your veins
a rising force flowing through you,
river rapids rushing
moving you fiercely along your journey
in pursuit of the truth.
You are unrelenting
a truth sayer revealing  
joy in authenticity.

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