That final Poetry Friday in May is hosted by Margaret Simon at Reflections on the Teche. It seems like a good time to celebrate summer, ready for those glorious days of color-filled June. Margaret talks of ideas growing, and I have had the pleasure of adding to Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Kimberley Moran's idea of adding ideas for summer notebooks. You can find the collection kickoff here!
Thanks for hosting, Margaret.
Nikki Grimes has challenged everyone at Michelle Barnes' Today's Little Ditty to try a wordplay exercise this month, to write a free verse poems per one word from the word list given. Click HERE for all the details.
I do love Michelle's challenges, and am late writing, but did manage one this week.
Leaf Maps
Consider
the veins:
tiniest
of lines,
road map
of leafy highways,
echoing
the plant’s branches -
drinking
long,
creating
beauty,
glorious
green energy
to
send back down the road.
Linda
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