Progressive Poem Poets - 2020

Progressive Poem – April 2020

Sweet violets shimmy, daffodils sway

along the wiregrass path to the lake

I carry a rucksack of tasty cakes

and a banjo passed down from my gram.

I follow the tracks of deer and raccoon

and echo the call of a wandering loon.

A whispering breeze joins in our song

and night melts into a rose gold dawn

Deep into nature’s embrace, I fold.

Promise of spring helps shake the cold

hints of sun lightly dapple the trees

calling out the sleepy bees 

Leaf-litter crackles…I pause. Twig snaps.

gasp! Shudder! Breathe out. Relax... 

as a whitetail doe comes into view.

She shifts and spotted fawns debut.

We freeze. My green eyes and her brown

meet and lock. Time slows down. 

I scatter the cakes, backing away

Safely exiting this strange ballet. 

I continue the path that winds down to the lake  

Missing my breakfast for beauty’s sake

But wait, what’s that delicious smell? 

Something familiar, I know so well.

It’s a campfire. I follow my nose. I see

a circle of friends waving at me.

I free up my banjo, quicken my pace

 Find a place to sit and gaze into space

Then my fingers pick out the old, old tune  
of rejoicing together under an amber moon… 

1 Donna Smith at Mainely Write
2 Irene Latham at Live Your Poem
3 Jone MacCulloch, deowriter
4 Liz Steinglass 
5 Buffy Silverman
6 Kay McGriff at https://kaymcgriff.edublogs.org/
7 Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core 
8 Tara Smith at Going to Walden
9 Carol Varsalona at Beyond Literacy Link
10 Matt Forrest Esenwine at Radio, Rhythm, and Rhyme
11 Janet Fagel, hosted at Reflections on the Teche
12 Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
13 Kat Apel at Kat Whiskers
14 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
15 Leigh Anne Eck at A Day in the Life
16 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
17 Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe
18 Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Reading
19 Tabatha at Opposite of Indifference
20 Rose Cappelli at Imagine the Possibilities 
21 Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
22 Julieanne Harmatz at To Read, To Write, To Be
23 Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
24 Christie Wyman at Wondering and Wandering
25 Amy at The Poem Farm
26 Dani Burtsfield at Doing the Work That Matters
27 Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge
28 Jessica Bigi at Donna Smith's blog 
29 Fran Haley at lit bits and pieces
30 Michelle Kogan