April is National Poetry Month. Writer’s Digest has a Poem A Day challenge, which I’m going to participate in. A few of those poems will end up here. Check out the link if you want to try the challenge, too.
This one ended up late, but after I was done fussing with it, I still wanted to share. 🙂
The challenge for the twenty-fourth is to title a poem “Tell it to the (your words here.)”
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Tell it to the Willow
Walk along the riverbank
water murmuring secrets for the birds
to carry away as dust clinging
to the feathers of their wings
shed softly
sifting
down
By that stream grows a willow
long branches trailing to the grass
and dabbling in the current
tucked close against the trunk
the world shaded in hues of green
is safety
peace
a place to take your sorrows
and tell them to the willow
who will weep with you
or tell your secrets for the birds to disperse
as harmless dust-motes
or tell the tree your brightest dreams
to soak in through bark and bud in new leaves
shimmering in the sunlight
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