HELLO Poetry Friday Friends! This week we are hosted by Linda Baie at TeacherDance. . Thank you for hosting! I look forward to seeing what you have for us today.
I have been revisiting my novel in verse about Vietnam. I had thought it was no longer relevant. But war is apparently not old hat. Not with a new one in progress. I’m revising the poems and thinking about its arc. Maybe I’m just trying to get my family’s story right. Maybe it’s a way of challenging myself.
Signs of spring are here in Upstate NY. Below are daffodils making their presence known. Tree buds appeared on my walk today. Might be cherry blossoms. I hope so because I love Cherry blossoms.
FRIENDS RETURNING
They are alive
these daffodils,
this cherry tree
in spite of
solid ice
the coldest cold,
to prove that lovely things
can muscle through,
bring beauty
to a new season.
© Janice Scully
The seaside in Pacifica, California.
Thank you, Linda, for hosting.
I love this, Janice. I feel like this is one important part of nature’s job description: “to prove that lovely things / can muscle through,”
Thanks for your encouraging poem Janice, I hope that our early buds and plants emerging make it through the couple of cold snaps that are coming… And you’re sharing another lovely watercolor, you might like the artist John Marin, perhaps you know of him already, if you don’t check out his watercolors.
Yay for your returning friends, Janice! And double yay for your dip back into your manuscript. Keep going! xo
Best wishes for the re-visiting to your manuscript, Janice! And I love that your friends visiting are muscling through their tough, cold time! I love that watercolor, too! Enjoy your outside adventures!
Thank you, Janice for bringing such lovely signs of spring in your poem and watercolor, and good luck with your Vietnam NIV, as it feels very timely to me, given present-day happenings.
Thank you, Janice for bringing such lovely signs of spring in your poem and watercolor, and good luck with your Vietnam NIV, as it feels very timely to me, given present-day happenings