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Announcements, poetry, Poetry Forms

Dive into Poetry and Make a Splash!

Lisa Tomey

Dive-Flyer
Announcing: Dive into Poetry coming in March!

Poet and Writing Coach Jena Schwartz will be hosting Dive into Poetry for the month of March 2020.

As a former and future Dive participant, I can honestly say that these events have been the best for online interactions with fellow poets.

To learn more about Dive into Poetry go to this LINK

poetry, Poetry Forms

A Poet Like Me

Lisa Tomey
waterfalls
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A poet like me
Casting nets to the windy
Waterfalls wonder
If there is a melody
Playing for their rhythmic splash

Nature calls for me
Letting them to other souls
Telling their story
Asking for breaths of honor
And telling of their life songs

At last, they hear verbs
Splashing falling waterfalls
Waters to refresh
Standing underneath the flow
Feeling the wet, mossy stones

Taking leaps for love
Hand in hand forever more
And next, the lovers
Dance upon the sandy shores
Aromatic tides of salt

Shell crumbs under feet
Tides rushing with salt and sand
Like dermabrasion
Scrubbing sludge and adding more
Taking away worried songs

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This is in response to the prompt: ______like me. Read more here: Dead Poets Live