National Poetry Month 2018
Poetry Friday round-up is with Amy at The Poem Farm.
Welcome to my National Poetry Month Day 5. I’m writing ekphrastic poetry about my father’s art.
Country Barn by John Gibson
Here
we take our time,
climb through barnwood
and tell secrets.
Here
we find ourselves
wrapped in fieldgrass
and speak whispers.
Here
we lower our masks
stay safely sunfree
and hum memories.
–Margaret Simon, (c) 2018
Quote from PoemCrazy by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge: “I feel safe because poems take me to a place out of normal time and thought, dipping me below the surface to where we all meet. The poem speaks in confidence, the reader feels included, honored, and keeps the secret.”
The form beginning with the word “here” borrowed from Janet Wong’s poem Walking to Temple found in Lee Bennett Hopkins collection World Make Way.
Reflections on the Teche 