Poetry Friday - Swap Sweets

           Poetry Friday is hosted by the enthusiastic Linda Mitchell at A World Edgewise! And tonight, she's sharing a delightful activity for poets, word and image prompts and a challenge! Thanks, Linda!

Summer poem swapping is the best thing. For one who receives little more than junk mail in my mailbox, finding a package with surprises inside is a joy. Thanks to Tabatha Yeatts for organizing us several times a year!

My swap this time is from Buffy Silverman, who loves and writes about nature, and shares gorgeous pictures from nature on FB, and often! I am grateful to have a special poem from her, and included with a note were two bookmarks with two more Buffy-written and illustrated poems.

                  she casts off her skin                                                      I wait for sunset
                  with her underwater ways                                              to spill its streaks of amber
                  life after life                                                                    damselfly settles
                                                                                                          on hollow pickerel weed
                                                                                                          her secret glow fills the pond

created by Buffy Silverman


Here's a poem response to thank Buffy:

Summer Savors

Summer months awash in flowers,

time for hammock napping hours,

time to write and time to read,

time for walks at leisure speed.

In between the hours’ ease

filling up with what you please,

time for work that’s pleasure paid

with vegetables and fruit earth-made

Hours enchanted by a lass,

her beauty showing clear as glass.

The poet appreciates the show,

creates an ode to fete her glow.

       Thanks to Buffy, fellow nature lover

Linda Baie