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seven paper boats
a single candle in each
flotilla of grief
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2015
Carol, at Carol's Corner, will join me again this year as often as possible.
Kimberley, at iWrite in Maine, is joining me this month.
Kay, at A Journey Through the Pages, is joining, too!
Kay ponders the place of giggles in the midst of sadness.
Steve, at inside the dog, is sharing his poems
in the comments at Poetrepository.
Heidi, at my juicy little universe, will join us when she can.
Her poem is "Why I Keep a Diary."
Linda, at TeacherDance, will join as often as she can.
Check the comments at A Year of Reading or Poetrepository for her poems.
Kevin (Kevin's Meandering Mind) is back this year,
leaving poetry trax in the comments.
Jone, at DeoWriter, is doing a "double L" challenge.
She and I are cross-poLLinating our challenges whenever possible.
The roundup of 2015 Poetry Month projects throughout the Kidlitosphere can be found at
A haiku was a perfect choice for sadness. I love the image as well. I don't know why grief is such an emotional word but it sounds like everything grief is.
ReplyDeletePerfect! Like always!
ReplyDelete"A flotilla of grief." (and then I had to go over to Jone's to see if today's word is flotilla, and yep, there it is). And such a perfect image. I will think about this one for a while, I think.
"Sadness"
once she was a
barely tethered red kite
dancing twirling soaring
daring life's winds
to change her perspective
today she wonders
whether a tangled heap
of sticks and paper
will ever find
blue skies
or joy's tailwinds
again
Carol Wilcox, (c) 2015
This is lovely Carol. So much emotion wrapped in the world of a kite.
DeleteFrom joy to sadness back to joy??? I enjoyed this poem, Carol.
DeleteAnd you've found just the picture for this too. There are recent events that I think of with this "flotilla of grief", Mary Lee.
ReplyDeleteThe flotilla of grief packs such sadness into so few words.
ReplyDeleteI took a few more words today with my poem When I Was Young
When I read your poignant haiku on sadness, I knew that I needed to write a poem. My humble offering, Survivor Tree Speaks, is found at http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2015/04/survivor-tree-speaks.html. Thanks for inspiring me, Mary Lee.
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