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Easter Traditions from Our Childhood

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Breakfast Watercolor Spontaneity by Lisa Tomey

A chocolate bunny and peeps and marshmallow eggs

and rainbows of hard boiled eggs for breakfast

The call of coffee rises from the kitchen

although I only will drink it will scoops of sugar and milk

I know it’s time to get up or daddy will be calling us all

Making strawberry banana jello early to set up

to  go with homemade chocolate cake with egg-white icing

just as daddy likes

All is well as all have risen

Donning dresses and shiny shoes sister and I bounce off to church

Brothers go to mass

Coming home we are greeted by mother and kiss the baby

Scents of ham and potatoes au gratin start their play with my juices

All is well as we sit at our places

Daddy bows and we follow

All we need to do is pray and eat

Then we will clean the kitchen

Brothers will end this with wet noodle fights

And the day has moved on to sleepy heads

but never naps

Easter was this way for us for many years

until one by one the chickens left the nest

and mom and daddy left this world as we knew it

Today we remember them

and forget about chocolate bunnies

and wake up knowing we were loved

Why do I smell Easter basket grass

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Prompt: Wake IUp – National Poetry Month Prompt

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Wake Up – National Poetry Month April 12 2020

watercolor collage cup collage by Lisa Tomey

Happy Easter! It’s day 12 for National Poetry Month. Today’s prompt is: Let’s write a bright, wake up kind of poem. It could be about the joy of morning, joy of coffee, joy of being or even a reverse of all these things. What have yo u? Show me, please, in the comments.

And I always like to offer some other resources so you might want to check out

Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides or NaPoWriMo

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Word it Out – National Poetry Month April 11 2020

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Greetings! I hope you all are having a fantastic National Poetry Month! So, today we will have a Word it Out! You can select each of the words to put all in one poem or write more than one or just pick the ones you like. It’s all up to you!

Be sure to share what you come up with!

There are also many other choices for prompts. You might want to check out Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides or NaPoWriMo!

Have a great Saturday!!

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Coloring the Day into Night

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Photo by Athena on Pexels.com

Coloring the Day into Night

Coloring the sails with clouded light

Drifting to the sea blue green white foaming

Living in the lifeboat made for you and me

And now we will know freedom

Every walkway shadowed

Sanded with the substance of pinks

Glassine with shimmery powders

Gasping for air and sinking

Grasp my hand and pull me up

Let me stay beside my ever more

Sipping from the silver chalice

Once more to know sweet ardor

Communion is not for the crowds

But for the one who partakes

A personal commitment to being more

Yet to be more is to be less