Solemn Springtime Morn

In the solemn silence of springtime,

a cooing bird sings his morning song.

Light streams golden glints on tinkling chime.

Path softens as creatures walk along.

Earth whispers softly, sweet voices praise

resurrection's gift-nature ablaze!

©CV, 2020

May the blessings of Easter's Resurrection Morn

spread light on everyone's pathway

during our quarantine life.

Thank you, Linda Mitchell, for nudging me to use take the first line of this poem and write a new poem. (This line was an option I wrote for the Kidlithosphere Progressive Poem and not chosen.)

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 Poem. The 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

23 Ruth, There is no such thing as a God-forsaken town

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