Dear Springtime,
Recently, showers have splashed across pavements and fogged windows while blurring your spring colors. As a troubadour of nature, I pause to honor the earth and nature's seasonal transition during April's National Poetry Month. Through the lens of nature photography, digital graphics, and poetrylicious poetry, I wish to restore a colorful lens to my everyday life and renew my spirit of creativity. I will wait patiently for your palette of colors to pop and the weather to warm.
Sincerely, Your Faithful Follower
With pleasure, I invite my poet friends, writers, artists, and nature lovers to capture the splendors of a springtime moment and join me as I write
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Join the Gallery of Artistic Expressions, Poetry Parade
Capture the splendors of Springtime with your creativity.
Your options are:
- an original poem superimposed on a photo (image poem)
- a collage poem with scrapbook art
- a postcard poem
- a playlist of springtime music
- inspirational quotes on springtime
- Please add your offering to my Poetry Parade Padlet here.
As Myra Garces-Bascal stated in a previous Poetry Friday, "Poetry requires one to pause, consider, and stare at the marvel of the world. the intricacies of a leaf, or be still enough to let melody wash over one's soul."
While cruising on the Potomac yesterday, I searched for the treasured cherry blossoms but many were whisked away with the rains. While this was disappointing. nature did offer a glimpse of a few beautiful cherry trees at the entrance to the docks.
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Below is my image poem from yesterday's Lunch Cruise in Washington, DC.
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It is time to join the Poetry Friday Roundup at Irene Latham's blog.
Irene has poetic goodness to share with her recent public community poetry project in Blount County, Alabama. I was happy to share some of my image poems for her project. Irene is also showcasing the beginning of the Progressive Poem up to her fifth line in the poem. I am excited to read the line for the day each morning. Besides all of this news, there is more. Irene shared her ArtSpeak: FOLK ART poem, titled Prayer. Thank you, Irene, for being this week's hostess.
