GloPoWriMo Day 4 -

Each day the folks at NaPoWriMo are offering a prompt, and I'll start there and see what happens. I'm using my daily drafts to work on a middle grade book with the working title of TREEOGRAPHY, so there will be a lot of tree drafts this month. 

APR 4

In his poem, “Spring Thunder,” Mark van Doren brings us a short, haunting evocation of weather and the change in seasons. Today, we’d like to challenge you to craft your own short poem that involves a weather phenomenon and some aspect of the season. Try using rhyme and keeping your lines of roughly even length.

Front Porch

Early warm and dark, 

every bird in the world cries hark, 

only me here 

to see full moon set near, just

behind oak, beyond clouds;

the nectar is loud–

redbud and dogwood, 

bees before dawn,

pink and green cream, 

spring stretches and yawns.

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