#April National Poetry Month, Day Five
Welcome to the first week of April! Spring is abundantly beautiful in the Ozark Hills, showing up in Red Buds in full bloom and soon followed by our beautiful Ozark Dogwood blooms!
Today’s prompt offered by the National Poetry Month Page, NaPoWriMo.net, is to write your own poem, modeling it after a poem and the chosen author! Find a poem, and then write a new poem with the original shape, in which every line starts with the first letter of the corresponding line in the original poem. If I used Roethke’s poem ( using this poem by Theodore Roethkeas) Using this model poem, for example, the first line would start with “I,” the second line with “W,” and the third line with “A.” I would try to make all my lines neither super-short nor overlong but have about ten syllables. Example from RoethkeI’s poem showing the first 3 lines:
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones = I
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them = W
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one = A
I have selected one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver’s poem “A Thousand Mornings!”
All night, my heart makes its way = A
however it can over rough ground = H
of uncertainties, but until night = O
meets and then is overwhelmed by = M
morning, the light deepening, the = M
wind easing and just waiting, as I = W
too wait and when have I ever been = T
disappointed for the redbird to sing. = D
My morning lakeside deck writing:
At first I only hear whispered bird calls as I wait longer
Heavy rains, lighting flashes, growling thunder, gusts of wind moving through
Over Ozark mountains, flashes light snow and quick glances of earth shapes
Morning continues breaking, a soft blue glow shows off eastern skies
Morning becomes holy blue and I begin another day
With a springtime storm scrubbing clean ladden air
The smell of rain remains held in air, a fresh new scent
Day explodes returning in gully bird songs and pink glows of a red bud spring
Shadowleaves on Lake Ann 