As most of you know, Michelle H. Barnes at Today's Little Ditty hosts another poet nearly every month who then offers a poetic challenge to anyone who wishes to write to it. Here is the post for this month and the challenge from Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books, divisions of Lerner Publishing Group: Returning to my favorite quote from earlier, I would like your readers to write a poem that finds beauty in something that is not usually considered beautiful. The quote Carol refers to is "It’s startling how I start to see the beauty in things that I was taught not to see beauty in."
—STEiNUNN
Here is one idea:
It’s Personal
Denied - appreciation until - the respiration
of a baby’s gasp and cry,
when we wheeze and gulp and sigh,
or in loss, we say goodbye.
We ignore this bashful beauty -
a mistake we shouldn’t make.
Whisper “thank you” when you wake
for every breath you take.
Linda Baie ©All Rights