Our prompt this week at over at Read Write Poem was “Spring Has Sprung” — but I decided to do a little something different this week.
I used a line from Annamari’s poem, “Farewell” http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2009/03/farewell-2-for-readwritepoem-71.html as an epigraph. This poem was inspired partially by her line and partially by one of Barbara Fant’s poems, “Black Feathers”. (If you don’t know about Barbara Fant, she is a awesome Columbus, Ohio poet who can be heard regularly at Writing Wrongs Poetry — she recently slammed at Women of the World Poetry Slam 2009).
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the poem.
-Nicole
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Falling requires grace and I’m already clumsy.
-Annamari
I once heard a poet describe how
black feathers fall from the sky, children dripping
pieces of themselves as they attempt to fly,
climbing clumsily, but yet knowing, somehow,
that they
must
still try to fly: but I Continue reading
