Yay! It's Day ONE of the November 5 Day OpenWrite with Dr. Sarah J. Donovan's Ethical ELA! I love that this month's challenge surprised me in my email inbox this morning...so excited to write poetry with this lovely community again. Today, Dr. Donovan encourages us to think about thanks - and to write into this. After much thought, I centered on how much I enjoy my walks with my granddaughter. I am truly grateful for this time. Here's my poem about a recent walk together:
feather, small and gray
lying in our walking path
once seen cannot be unseen
get out!, you demand
so, the stroller’s belt I undo
together
we bend over
looking closely
only to have the wind
lift it
into the air
sending it forward
beckoning
you and I in pursuit
laughing
following a feather
I received these thoughtful comments on the Ethical ELA website:
Maureen, I’m feeling the joy in watching you and “Frog” chase a feather and can’t help but think of Emily Dickinson while reading your poem. The idea of “the wind lift[ing] it in the air” and “sending it forward” is filled w/ such hopeful movement.
Kim Johnson
There is such beauty here – it reminds me so much of the feather falling off the church steeple in Savannah in the movie Forrest Gump! I love the movement and the reactions.
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