April - Poetry Month - Day Fourteen - Narrative PLUS Poetry Friday

 

I am continuing with my Poetry Month challenges and Jone Rush MacCulloch is our host for Poetry Friday HERE with a big challenge for everyone this day, to share a poem in a "Classic Found Poetry Palooza". Be sure to check it out! Thanks, Jone, for hosting!  

         Remember to check out what's happening with the next Progressive Poem line today by Janice Scully. See the entire list on the right.

       Happy Poetry Month, where poems parade in the streets, run like rivers within our veins or settle in our hearts every.single,time. 

       I am using this older book pictured left that follows the alphabet with one kind of prompt each day. I used this book on occasion in the classroom years ago, but never worked through it day by day, with deliberation! Here goes!

      Today - N is for Narrative, a poem that offers some kind of story. I kind of cheated today because it is my older granddaughter, Ingrid's fourteenth birthday. A few years ago I wrote a book of what I called "goodbye" poems of different years for all my family. This is one I wrote about Ingrid, but imagined in her mother's (my daughter's) voice. 

For Ingrid’s Mama, Sarah

 

Toddling into two-

on your way to three,

I find I miss your

halting steps,

holding my hand

only to step

off the curb.

 

Now you begin

learning no and then why

and I do it-

startling

pronouncements

of separation.

 

Your eyes prowl

for the next adventure,

now.

Wow, you are growing,

your baby steps going

into a run-and-jump song.

If this could be slowed

I would linger a while

keeping your baby smile

only for me.

 

               Linda Baie ©

Happy Fourteenth Birthday, Ingrid!