Thursday, April 9, 2020

2020 Kidlithosphere Progressive Poem-Day 9

This year's Kidlithosphere Progressive Poem project started in 2012 by Irene Latham to celebrate April's National Poetry Month with a community of writers. The poem project now led by Margaret Simon has evolved into a Choose-Your-Own-Poem-Adventure Progressive PoemThe fun began with Donna Smith who offered choice options with two different perspectives to continue the poem.  Each poet on the list below continued the practice. Today, I am excited to choose one of the options Tara Smith offered.

Sweet violets shimmy, daffodils sway
along the wiregrass path to the lake.     
I carry a rucksack of tasty cakes
and a banjo passed down from my gram. 

I follow the tracks of deer and raccoon

and echo the call of a wandering loon.  
A whispering breeze joins in our song.  
and night melts into a rose gold dawn.

Matt Forrest Essenwine are you ready?  Envelope please...

My options are:

Deep into nature's embrace, I fold. (Option A
In the solemn silence of springtime  (Option B)





I'm adding a digitized photo of a Virginia nature trail I walked with my granddaughter, Sierra. Perhaps, our little adventurer crossed a path like this one.
If you would like to follow the monthlong path the poem takes, see the contributors and the days they are adding to the Progressive Poem:

1 Donna Smith at Mainely Write
2 Irene Latham at Live Your Poem
3 Jone MacCulloch, at deo writer
4 Liz Steinglass at Elizabeth Steinglass
5 Buffy Silverman at Buffy Silverman Children's Author
6 Kay McGriff at A Journey Through The Pages
7 Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core
8 Tara Smith at Going to Walden
9 Carol Varsalona at Beyond Literacy Link
10 Matt Forrest Esenwine at Radio, Rhythm, and Rhyme
11 Janet Fagel hosted at Reflections on the Teche
12 Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
13 Kat Apel at Kat Whiskers
14 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
15 Leigh Anne Eck at A Day in the Life
16 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
17 Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe
18 Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Reading
19 Tabatha at Opposite of Indifference
20 Rose Cappelli at Imagine the Possibilities
21 Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
22 Julieanne Harmatz at To Read, To Write, To Be
24 Christie Wyman at Wondering and Wandering
25 Amy at The Poem Farm
26 Dani Burtsfield at Doing the Work That Matters
27 Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge
28 Jessica Big at TBD
29 Fran Haley at lit bits and pieces
30 Michelle Kogan at Michelle Kogan

21 comments:

  1. Glad we are on the dawn trail--and will it be silent or an embrace? Only Matt knows for sure. Thanks for the two fine lines.

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    1. Buffy, thanks for taking a look at how I saw the next step. I must admit that Tara's line was so beautiful that it took me many tries before I could find the pathway for me to take.

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  2. Tara's lines were both beautiful, but I'm glad you picked the image of that beautiful dawn. Can't wait to see what Matt decides!

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    1. Thanks for joining me here, Catherine. Happy Easter. So far words like dawn to nature's embrace to dawn have brought our little traveler further on her journey.

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  3. Love the imagery of a rose-gold dawn. Thanks for updating the list. Both of your lines resonate with me. My OLW is embrace, and alliteration is one of my favorite devices.

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    1. Thanks, Margaret, for your comment. It is reassuring that my choices made sense.

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  4. I love that golden dawn, too. And both of your options are enticing. I'm looking forward to seeing which one Matt chooses.

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    1. Now we know what Matt, Janet, and Linda chose. The journey is springing along, Kay. I used my Option B as the start of my Easter poem on my blog today.

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  5. Both are wonderful introductions to a change, what's next, Carol. I love the sound of them. (Love that envelope, too.)

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    1. Thank you, Linda, for catching my envelop, please add on. I am super interested in which direction Matt will take this poem adventure.

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  6. These are both very quiet/reflective. I'm curious to see which path Matt takes.

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    1. Quiet and reflective-YES, thank you, Kat. It was not easy to pen two choices that made sense and resonated with me.

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  7. Thanks, Carol - these are both intriguing, but I've made my decision!

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    1. I liked seeing what you chose from what I offered. Your choice options were a wonderful lead in to Janet's turn.

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  8. I really like this choose your own adventure poem. It's different and fun...and I'm up on Sunday...a little nervous. Your soothing lines are both wonderful. Which ever Matt doesn't take...you should write a new poem from.

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    1. Linda, I am waiting for your addition to pop up. In the meantime, I took your lead and wrote a poem of hope with the line that Matt did not take. Thank you for the nudge. Happy Easter. (https://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2020/04/solemn-springtime-morn.html)

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  9. I loved both lines from Tara, but I think this rose gold dawn is spectacular. Sun's coming up and what's next on this pathway? Popping over to Matt's to see what he thinks of your two yummy lines! I know which one I'd go with...I think!

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    1. I wonder which one you liked, Donna. You gave us an interesting challenge this year.

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  10. Beautiful lines to choose from, Carol - and I was partial to that "rose gold" image, so glad it's still here! Blessings and best wishes your way.

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    1. Robyn, it is always great to hear colleagues' thoughts on what I write. Rose gold was such a beautiful image that I felt the need to search until I found good options to move the poem along.

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  11. Playing catch-up this morning. Hard to choose, but I'm hoping for nature's embrace. We could all use that touch of affection!

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