Hello, Poetry Friend
I am honored to be a part of The Spring Collection 2024: RENAISSANCE, published by Kimberly Phinney’s most excellent The Way Back to Ourselves.
Spring in the Texas Hill Country is always glorious, but last year spring showed up late — in May and June instead of March and April. Late rains brought out combinations of wildflowers no one could remember seeing for fifty years.
That was the background for my two poems, “If I Step Into The Light” and “Golden-cheeked Warbler” (scroll down for that second one). The first poem I wrote with a friend in mind, blooming late. It begins like this:
If I STEP INTO THE LIGHT
I might bloom.
A hummingbird might drink from my flower.
I might prefer to attract the orange butterfly,
might tip my petals just so, so he sees me,
The other poem came from one of my regular poetry habits: writing about birds — this time, about an endangered bird that lives only in my neck of the woods.
Listen to the song! And here’s the beginning of the poem:
GOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER
She can’t quiet down
not while spring is at its peak.
Where oak and cedar meet
she makes her home.
The Renaissance collection is online and free for you to enjoy. I’m making it my poetry collection for the next few weeks, taking time to read and journal and poem from a poet each day. I want this spring to last and last and last, “to take the edge / off next August.”
Happy poeming!
Megan
"I might bloom."
Wow.
Heading over now to read the rest!