Mary Lee Hahn at A(nother) Year of Reading is hosting the Poetry Friday roundup today. You can visit her post here and see how she has nailed down her National Poetry Month project (the cherita), is ready to start the Progressive Poem tomorrow, and is launching into more wonderfulness of NPM.
Recently I noticed a dying Joshua Tree in our yard. It wasn’t the dying of the tree that I noticed–I’ve seen this tree for years, and I knew it was dying. What struck me this time was the prominent bloom on top, one of the very first Joshua blossoms I’ve seen this spring. Here is my etheree in honor of this transforming tree.
A Dying Joshua
dry
dying
skeletal
remains of this
Joshua tree are
not surrendering yet,
stretches, pulls up through dead wood
living crown blossom lifts upward
toward heaven, the life of the tree
persists with hope for another season
Happy Poetry Month! I wrote a poem about the National Poetry Month poster.
We were all meant for something
created
to
be
loved
created
creatives
called
named
created
For something we were all meant
The Skinny is a poetry form created by Truth Thomas. Read more about the form here.
It seems I just started a series by writing that Skinny poem, my second poetry month poster poem. Last year’s poster and poem:
There’s a poem in this place
and a hope for humanity
in the cleaving of brokenness
the loved become whole
in this place of poems
You are invited to join ETHICAL ELA’s April #Verselove, which starts tomorrow.
