National Poetry Month Farewell

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National Poetry Month Farewell

Whew! Today marks the final day of Poetry Month with daily poetry postings (at least once a day). Entries have included free verse, haikus, limericks, sestinas, sonnets and more.

Although I certainly plan to keep writing and publishing poetry, I think this presents an opportune moment to pause and reflect upon a most a-muse-ing month. It’s time to give the month of May the green light.

A Muse for a Month –

Free Lines Conversed for Two Fortnights’ Dispersed

Two fortnights of fanciful fun –

Musing and amusing,

Crumbling discarded drafts

Like the season’s last flakes

Of fragile frost,

Sending scraps adrift.

Pushing past parcels

Of projects and proposals,

Dismissing deadlines,

While tenderly touching

The poem in my pocket.

Farewell, fair April.

Your poetic marathon

Has touched the tape.

May flowers beckon,

Their petals peeking

Beneath the unfurling firmament above.

Does weather mean more

To a poet

Or a gardener?

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Café Writing (“weather means more to a gardener”)

Easy Street Prompts (“green light”)

Inspire Me Thursday (“push”)

Meme Express (“poem” and “pocket”)

Poetic Asides (April P.A.D. Challenge – a farewell poem)

Read Write Poem (NaPoWriMo – What are you listening to or writing about?)