Scars Are Armor
embraced scars
make the best armor
of living
- originally shared last year, right before the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, the blog where I first shared my poetry, closed. Thankfully, the site remains open as an archive, so I didn’t wail too violently. Still, I do miss
it... I wrote this senryū for a prompt where Rommy asked for poems brewed out of “words to live by”. I chose the words scars and armor. And since I just got a brand new scar, it feels just right to re-share this bit on Poets and Storytellers United (Writers’ Pantry #35: Change Happens (for the Better, Let’s Hope) Aug, 2020)
Scars are so much stronger than skin. It is a life survived and lived.
ReplyDeleteTrue. True.
DeleteThey do indeed, love this from your lovely perspective!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Helen.
DeleteThis is a stunner of a senryu. We are wise when we make our armor from the proof of our strength to survive.
ReplyDeleteRight on!
DeleteSo utterly true and beautifully spoken Magaly!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Carrie.
DeleteYes indeed. Scars are our armor!
ReplyDeleteSo say we all!
DeleteScars certainly show you have lived your life and understand it more. Experience is so valuable, at times it may hurt but it sets you up to experience just about everything. You certainly know this far more than most Magaly.
ReplyDeleteSomeone once told me that "experience is currency". AndI totally believe it.
DeleteHow true, we should never be ashamed of our scars for they merely are the signs we have lived a life filled with both good and bad and we are strong.
ReplyDeleteShame can be such a useless emotion.
DeleteAll good things must come to an end, they say.
ReplyDeleteUnless one is a good vampire *cough*.
DeleteScars knit the skin together again, so we must embrace them. Well said, Magaly.
ReplyDeleteWholeness with character!
DeletePowerful words to live by.
ReplyDeleteIf I do say so myself. 😁
DeletePowerful words of a powerful woman. I salute your strength and wisdom.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Debi.
DeleteYES!
ReplyDelete🖤❤️
DeleteExcellent and meaningful!
ReplyDeletePow!! You said it. Short, sweet and powerful 👌🏽
DeleteThank you, ladies!
DeleteYes!!! Powerful and beautiful! Big Hugs!
ReplyDeleteHugging you right back!
DeleteMuch wisdom here – whether the scars are physical or emotional. (And perhaps all scars are both at once?)
ReplyDeleteI believe that most times they are both.
DeleteYes, I too was so disappointed that Real Toads folded I really loved that posting site.
ReplyDeleteThere is much to miss.
DeleteI remember this stunning senryu, Magaly, and am just as knocked out by it this time as I was the first time I read it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kim.
DeleteTrue. Takes a lot of courage, though! Much appreciation for those who do it.
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciation (and admiration), indeed...
DeleteEach day breaks: like an egg we learn to make omelet of our lives
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday Magaly
Much💝love
Great way of putting it, Gillena.
DeletePerfect. Every word counts and amounts to a whole big truth/feeling.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Colleen.
DeleteArmor written directly on the skin--powerful image!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteGlad you brought this old favorite of mine out for a whirl. LOL, even more delighted that my prompt played a part in it coming to being.
ReplyDeleteRommy, the muse. Hehehe.
DeleteScars are badges of courage. None of us experience life unblemished. It's what we do with the scars that matters, as you so eloquently express it.
ReplyDeleteIndeed!
Deletescars can be badges of courage.
ReplyDeletecertainly body armor. :)
The choice is ours.
DeleteI like this!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteWow. Thought provoking in such few words...I'll see my scars in a new light for sure.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad!
DeleteScars are proof of our life. This causes me to touch my own scars and remember...
ReplyDeleteRemembering is good...
DeleteI got scars, you got scars, all of God's children got scars! :)
ReplyDeleteI just heard Oprah in my head, lol!
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