Liz Steinglass hosts our final Poetry Friday of February. I know some of you are ready to say goodbye. It's been crazy weather in various parts of the country. Liz and all the links can be found
here.
I've written many poems this month, mostly for Laura Shovan's birthday challenge. It's my fourth year, and I think it's rather like heavy lifting, somehow preparing for a big race. It's also fun, and fabulous to see everyone else's poems, their creative spunk at throwing words down, this time from picture prompts. I don't know if you could say they're great, but these two I'm sharing were the most fun to write. Be sure to visit Laura's blog till the 29th (an extra day this year) to read the remaining poems.
Here are yesterday's! And today for Poetry Friday, Michael Ratcliffe is hosting
here!
And here are my two favorites:
A Picture Can Bring Many Thoughts
This snowy space lures like icing on a cake,
but don’t suggest it may be sweet.
I feel it only in my imagination,
a dream-whipped cold-
more than sunshine cold for skiing
or snow drift cold for red cheeks and snowball fights,
and snow-fluff cold for making angels.
This cold freezes eyes open, nostrils shut;
teardrops form frozen waterfalls on the eyelids.
This cold makes the news.
Linda Baie ©All Rights Reserved
