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National Poetry Month – Roots
National Poetry Month means there are a bevy of poetry challenges and prompts to write a poem a day from.
If you have been following me for a while you know that the anthology She Too: Four Voices in (Almost) Harmony’s conception came from the Writer’s Digest – Poem A Day challenge of 2014.
Last year I did the same challenge during the month of April and many of those poems as well as poems I wrote during International Poetry Month (October 2014) are now published in The Unique & Sundry.
Needless to say these poetry challenges have proven profitable to say the least. Plus these challenges are a lot of fun. My poetic muse enjoys the tripping the ‘word’ fantastic with these challenges.
This year I am having even more fun with the challenges….
Instead of staying loyal to just one challenger be it Writer’s Digest, #NaPoWriMo, or Found Poetry Review, I am following all three challenges. Now that is not to say that I am writing three poems a day, rather I am looking at all three and letting my muse choose the one write for. In fact Monday (April 4th), I felt inspired to use #MondayMotivation as my prompt instead.
It was been great fun so far.
Today’s poem came from The Writer’s Digest Challenge — #aprpad. The challenge was to write an ekphrastic poem. You know I could not pass that up. Robert Lee Brewer said we could choose our favorite work of art or use one of the three he gave us. The choices were Michelangelo’s – First Painting; Frida Kahlo’s “Roots;” and Alfons Mucha’s “Age of Love.” I of course needed to look no further with Kahlo as part of the mix. So here is my contribution….
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Frida Kahlo “Roots” courtesy of Writer’s Digest post
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Tied to land
bound to soil
the hope to grow
to sprout
to rise above
what we were yesterday
planting ourselves in tomorrow
with promises of fruit
from labors — or soul
before we return back to seed.
This poem was written for the #aprpad challenge and is subject to change as it has not undergone brutal editing as of yet. 😉
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