Well it has been quite the ride, eh? I wasn’t sure how it would go, trying to write something each day. I’ve written poems in various notebooks and journals that I keep for my quilting stuff (please make a note of that, future historians and biographers!) but don’t generally share those with anyone. Having a goal to write each day does make one a little more focused. Strangely like my purposeful entry into the sewing room each day. Have to get in there if I want to get anything done. Even if it’s only a little something, it’s still something. Likewise having a deadline each day to write something made me sit down and do it. Sometimes at lunch, sometimes after dinner, sometimes as the clock was ticking up to midnight.<\/p>\n
To my friends and co-workers who riffed haiku with me over the month – that was great fun and I hope we can continue on. Surely there are worse things in life to do than to spin out thoughts 17 syllables at a time and to share them with friends. I think the tweeted haiku count is somewhere around 70 for the month and that doesn’t count stuff posted here and on Facebook.<\/p>\n
So I hope you enjoyed the different fare this month and I know that I won’t be so shy about posting poetical things here in the future. Without further ado, a last official poem for:<\/p>\n
The End of National Poetry Month, 2011<\/p>\n
Thank you, all the poets of April
\nwho swept me up with a promise and a hope.
\nAll hoping for words to fall into place
\nhoping to gather them up each day.
\nTo set them down each day
\non that blank page
\non that blank screen.
\nMagic. Something from nothing.
\nWe left dangling ends for another time.
\nWe put the thoughts out loud.
\nWe pushed our comfort aside
\nwith that promise of the April tide.<\/p>\nThose who stopped to read my words
\nwere puzzled by the verses.
\nThey picked up the haiku and
\nturned them over like pretty stones.
\nThey twittered words back to me
\nand made me glad I\u2019d dared to write.
\nMy words set their words free.<\/p>\nOur month of poems is over,
\nwe turn back to our solitary page.
\nBut in the days before
\nwe light our signal flares again
\nwe\u2019ll add the April braveness
\nto our hoarded words
\nand sit down
\nand write.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well it has been quite the ride, eh? I wasn’t sure how it would go, trying to write something each day. I’ve written poems in various notebooks and journals that I keep for my quilting stuff (please make a note … Continue reading