This final Friday of National Poetry Month is also a Poetry Sisters challenge week! We’re writing ekphrastic poems, so I chose an image from today’s NYT morning newsletter. Such a different spring view from my window and from his. When will this madness end?
Here’s what the rest of the Poetry Sisters came up with this month:
Laura @ Laura Purdie Salas
Liz @ Liz Garton Scanlon
Sara @ Read Write Believe
Tanita @ {fiction, instead of lies}
Tricia @ The Miss Rumphius Effect
Here are the rest of my poems from this week:
April 17 As If We Needed One More Example of What Narcissism Looks Like
April 18 Making Good
April 19 Primatology
April 20 Shooting Spree
April 21 A River Runs Through It
April 22 Today’s News is Outside Your Front Door
Irene has this week’s Poetry Friday roundup at Live Your Poem.
A(nother) Year of Reading 
Different views, indeed. I feel the power of your few words. Shocking and sad.
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“Rubble” is such a heartbreaking word. Reminds me of the photos Yuko Shimizu used as reference for THE CAT MAN OF ALEPPO. xo
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Gut punch. And the challenge of being grateful for our own good luck and privilege–not just grateful but full of joy, which I think is part of gratitude–is just kind of impossible sometimes.
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Sadly true. Powerful poem!
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Oof, that’s so raw and true, Mary Lee.
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Devastating. So true about living in different worlds.
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Powerful photo and poem. Your title says so much.
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Oof… I am safe.
…gazing at my fir and pine and aspen, so tempting to sink into despair. And then I re-read your words and can feel the power of pointing out to the world that this does not have to be.
So thank you, Mary Lee.
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The witness of this is so much. Gut punch as someone else wrote…yes.
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Oh, this last stanza is heartbreaking. Your tricubes are the perfect form for responding to the issues of the day.
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Mary Lee, I thought I wrote my reply but it seems to be lost. A World Apart says so much in few words about springtime here and there. Would you like to offer the poem and poem to my April Seeds Grace April? I think this one from your Poetry in the News would make a statement that makes us pause and ponder.
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Thank you for the invitation, Carol. I added it!
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Painful truth, powerful poem.
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