A Poem for Frog Pose

"You could say I was the frog who longed / to be kissed so I could prove to the world / I was a pixie, a princess cast under a spell / where no one knew who I was." -- from Frog Pose by Corie Feiner

Images from illustrations of the story The Frog Prince from the 1800's.

As a former people pleaser and recovered co-dependent, writing this poem for Frog Pose brought up the years of my life that I believed I was cursed with what I perceived to be some ugly frog body and wandered my days like the Frog Prince with the intense desire for others to “see me for who I really am.”

Little did I know I was hiding from myself, too.

Little did I know that frogs are miraculous creatures.

Little did I know that opening up my hips and learning to safely release the old fears of intimacy, shame, and the why didn’t I run away muck would help release by body to feelings of safety with myself.

Safety to love myself wherever I am at in my life. Right now.

Safety to say, I have struggled, I have made mistakes, and so many things in my life are not in my control, but that I, like the frog, am beautiful, miraculous, actually, and worthy of love… no matter what. A big love.

And so you are you.

I hope as you read this poem, that something in you opens up and that you sing you…