Poetry Month - Day Thirty - Did I Learn Anything?

It's April's End. 
            

         Remember to check out the list of what everyone is doing at Jama Rattigan's blog: Jama's Alphabet Soup.

          And check on the Water Poem Project where every day, a poet is sharing a prompt connected to water, hosted and created by Laura Shovan!

Plus! Check each day for the added line to the Progressive Poem, created by Irene Latham, now hosted by Margaret Simon! The link is above and the graphic to the right!  This time, the ending line is not only written, but it's sung by Michelle Kogan accompanied by her banjo! It's wonderful! Find it HERE!







         A leap with the theme of CIRCLES for poetry month, poems & small sketches. I am looking forward to reading everyone's posts. I'm sure I will love each one, knowing they're done during a time we've not lived before. I am worried about so many, those close and those far, my community, too. 


April 1 - haiku
April 2 - cinquain
April 3 - a couplet
April 4 - limerick
April 5 - a kyrielle
April 6 - a skinny
April 7 - quatrain

April 8 - tanka

April 9 - a prose poem

April 10 - free verse
April 11 -  acrostic
April 12 - free verse

April 13 - a nonet

April 14 - haiku
April 15 -  lune
April 16 - sonnet
April 17 - free verse
April 18 - silly verse 
April 19 - couplets

April 20 - free verse
April 21 - a skinny
April 22 - a prose poem
April 23 - cherita
April 24 - free verse
April 25 - mixed-up rhyme
April 26 - mixed-up rhyme
April 27 - mixed-up rhyme
April 28 - a cinquain
April 29 - mixed-up rhyme

           It's been quite a journey, this April. I am hopeful for our future, taking it slow, but looking for glimmers of good things for our world coming. Best wishes for continuing good health to you all! 

Did I Learn Anything? 

A circle expands with the human spirit.

when we gather

in circles of giving, healing, and talking,

around the kitchen table or a campfire,

sitting with a group in prayer,

offering aid with our words,

often on the internet.

Twain wrote, a circle 

is a round straight line 

with a hole in the middle.

And then I know that

troubled, we can find ourselves 

running in circles,

hoping that we will soon come full circle

to a solution.

We circle the wagons in our beliefs,

stuck in a vicious circle.

But it might only be an example of 

circular reasoning which forces us 

back into running in circles.

In that time, stops along the way bring

celebrations, satisfaction, resolution.

And we discover grief, too.

That is the circle of life.