Happy National Poetry Month 2023! Curious about what I’m doing? Want to play along? Read more here.
[Heads-up: If you’re visiting regularly, please know that the bold, blue text is what I’m writing fresh each day. The black text is the same each day:>) ]
Heading into the final week of National Poetry Month, I’m keenly aware of how much stamina daily creativity requires. And daily posting. What seems fun and different the first time we do it can seem like a grind pretty quickly. And yet…and yet…if I take a deep breath and block out my to-do list, I can often find that magic feeling again.
None of the words in yesterday’s pile seemed to go with any of the topics. So I started just pulling other verbs that implied motion, like “touch” and “walk.” Then an image of a newly walking toddler, carefully making their way from one piece of furniture to the next, came into my mind. My connections to this poem are more memories and not really books.
What words will we be digging through today?
And here’s the card that we might pull our topic from:
So some possible topics are:
- mystery
- Fred
- ghost
- shaggy
- Scooby Doo
Will you join in? Would love to see what you come up with!
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5 Responses
Laura, what a sweet image of that floating, though tottering, baby making it to Daddy. I agree about the words not matching with the titles for me, yet there were so many powerful content words, weren’t there?
Fly
Doubts checked
We touch the top
Happy struggle
Thanks, Denise. Glad I wasn’t the only one :>) Ooh. Doubts checked. I love that. Makes me think of checking my bag at the airport so I can fly without any of that unwanted baggage to carry around. So I take it both literally and figuratively. Thank for sharing!
Some great poems today… sweet image of baby’s first steps and doubts checked so we can fly!
Here’s another thought on float:
Float
Through life
Evolve in struggle
Answer needs
End blame
Say, do, touch
Champion
Be happy
Love this. “Evolve in struggle.” Wow. Yes. Lots of this poem connects with my own personal life philosophies, so I feel an urge to embroider this on a pillow or something!
That’s an impactful comment. Thanks, Laura. I think this poetic practice this month is working on our word choice muscles.