Poetry

So I just found out a little while ago that April is National Poetry Month.  How cool is that?!  A whole month celebrating this creative outlet of words in various forms, all laden with meaning and feeling and goodness.  In honor of that, I decided to share a few poems that I have been working on--they are not finished exactly, but I'm working on them.  Yet part of me feels like it may be a while before that work is finished; a joy and burden of wrestling with words.

Bright, vibrant spring green,

a promise of abundance.  

If but well tended.  

Raindrops on branches, 

suspended, glisten like pearls. 

Nature's adornment.

Autumn leaves descend,

Crimson, orange, yellow, brown. 

Change made beautiful.

Words.  Feelings, 

hopes tied up in letters.  

A soft fawn colored paper wrapped package, 

unmarked but intriguing, waiting.   

Meaning as varied as the audience that reads them, 

opens them, writes them, shares them, 

cherishes them, loves them.  

Each package to each individual a different gift,

sometimes what is sent differs from what is received, 

but with that, 

a world of potential and value and richness, waiting.