When I tell you I’m a writer, I mean that I write everything. I consider my blogging to be nonfiction work, but I also write creative nonfiction and poetry. As an English major, I studied both, yet it’s been harder for me to continue to hone my craft when it comes to poetry. So last year, I decided to participate in Napowrimo, which is a project to write a poem every day during April, which is National Poetry month. Read Write Poem even gives out daily writing prompts to help you along the way! Okay, so I only wrote 12 poems last year, but before that I hadn’t written any in maybe a year. This was my favorite poem I wrote last year, inspired by a photo prompt with an image of a foggy gray sky.
the sky today
what is it that we ask of God?
the courage to forget
or the grace to remember
i surrender today to the mottled gray fog
to the slate blue thunder rolling
in to meet the clouds
the sky is an open mystery
i found one of your t-shirts today
in a box of old clothes i should have
unpacked a lifetime ago
each wrinkle wrinkled in the same place
as if you had just taken it off
over and across those broad brown shoulders
like granite, like steel
like the sky today holding the sun
hostage inside the fog
on a day like today, we try
to grab onto something
someone, a memory
we try to find a way to hold it all
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If you’re a fellow poet (or want to be), you might want to check out Napowrimo and join me in the writing journey come April!
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