I’ve been following a number of different poetry projects this month. My friend and fellow Inkling Catherine Flynn is using a form she is modeling after a book Q is for Duck to write short poems about Hope. We can all use more hope these days, so today I am borrowing her form.
I’m traveling today in Mississippi from Jackson where I grew up and my mother and brother still live to Hattiesburg for the Fay Kaigler Book Festival where I’ll be presenting on Friday. I won’t have much time to respond to poem posts, but I invite you to drive along the southern highways and see the buttercups in bloom. Write your own poem in whatever form you choose in the comments. Support other writers with encouraging responses.
B is for Hope
because
buttercups bloom
Margaret Simon, draft
along the roadside,
opening pink palms
to a foggy morning
inviting me to … presence.
The Progressive Poem is with Dave Roller, Leap Of Dave.
Reflections on the Teche 