Dear Poetry Friends,
I am posting on my phone because I’m having trouble connecting in a hotel room. I’m visiting my mother who is in the end stages of Alzheimer’s. This time is filled with hard and love, tears and joy.
Heidi challenged the Inklings this first Friday to choose a prompt from her Yule calendar. Since I spent last week in the company of my grandchildren, I was drawn to the prompt “Capture the sound of laughter in rhyme.”
I am taking delight in watching my grandchildren laugh. This poem is dedicated to my granddaughter, June, who was two on Dec. 21st.
De-Light
I taste a note of nutmeg
on my tongue, a slight burn
while I yearn
for sweetness,
and your song“Happy Day Day”
your two-ness
of delight candles to blow
ribbons flowtwisting into this gift
of a child shifting,becoming laughter.
Margaret Simon, draft
To see how other Inklings wrote to this challenge:
Heidi @my juicy little universe
Molly @Nix the Comfort Zone
Mary Lee @A(nother) Year of Reading
Linda @A Word Edgewise
Catherine @Reading to the Core
Reflections on the Teche 