Summer is my least creative time of year, so I’ve been extra grateful for the Poetry Stretch challenges at The Miss Rumphius Effect recently. This week’s challenge was to write an acrostic (where the first letter of each line forms a word when you read down the left margin of the poem). It’s one of my favorite poetic forms, so it should have been a piece of cake. But it wasn’t. Oh well, here are my two poems this week.
- Dry Sea Skin
Bumps–clinging, crusty bits–knit
Across rock, a crackling white rash of
Roughness
Nestled,
Attached,
Cemented. No soothing
Lotion of ocean waves can
Ease the dryness, smooth the
Slicing shells of salt-water skin.
The Best Place to Be…
Lost
Inside
Books,
Reaching,
Asking,
Reading,
Immersed in
Every
Story
–Poems by Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
Check out the other acrostics at The Miss Rumphius Effect!
And enjoy the Poetry Friday Roundup at Tabatha A. Yeatts’ blog.
Have a fantastic 4th of July, and thank you to everyone who in some way works for peace and independence.