#NPM18 - 17/30 - Surprise!

April is #NPM18 - National Poetry Month.

"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."

                                                                                                      ~ Khalil Gibran

           

         Be sure to see the page on the bar above for the Progressive Poem's schedule of poets, hosted by Irene Latham at Live Your Poem.  

        And, see what many are doing for Poetry Month, by looking HERE at Jama Rattigan's post at Jama's Alphabet Soup.
          

              My goal for Poetry Month: A haiku diary that may include other forms related to haiku, like haibun, haiga. monoku or renga. My first poem speaks of why I am handwriting the poems.

April’s garden,

growing poems 

on lined pages

                    Linda Baie

links:

       Poem one

       Poem two

       Poem three 

       Poem Four

       Poem Five
       Poem Six  

       Poem Seven

       Poem Eight 

       Poem Nine 

       Poem Ten
      Poem Eleven
      Poem Twelve
      Poem Thirteen
      Poem Fourteen 
      Poem Fifteen 
      Poem Sixteen 

Here is Poem Seventeen, trying a haibun. Discover more about them here!

               I like to drive home from wherever I am in the city on the back roads, away from the traffic, this time of year especially watching for the colors of spring, the yellows of jonquils and forsythia, the pale pinks of fruit trees before they burst into bright blossom suns and the tulips, bringing rainbows of colors. This time, meandering down one street I saw what I thought was a goat. I had to turn around. I sat and watched, and watched some more. It surprised me, but not because a goat is in the neighborhood, because this household pretends with a piece of art.

photo by Linda Baie