April, she will come

Poetry prompts 1-4

Goodness it’s spring and I stood in a stream of sunshine today. How are you?
Happy National Poetry Month to you all. This factory is being built by all of us.
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Here, please do prompts with me:

• Imagine what it would feel like to know all the truth from everyone

• Create a repetition poem that every line starts with: I want to go home

• What do your bones know?

• Pretend someone is obsessed with you. What makes them preoccupied with you?

• What are your spring to dos?

Here, eat these with me:

Variation on a Theme

Thank you my life long afternoon
late in this spring that has no age
my window above the river
for the woman you led me to
when it was time at last the words
coming to me out of mid-air
that carried me through the clear day
and come even now to find me
for old friends and echoes of them
those mistakes only I could make
homesickness that guides the plovers
from somewhere they had loved before
they knew they loved it to somewhere
they had loved before they saw it
thank you good body hand and eye
and the places and moments known
only to me revisiting
once more complete just as they are
and the morning stars I have seen
and the dogs who are guiding me

-W. S. Merwin

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-Amy