April 10, 2014

• Encouragement

  Feel the rush
  Adrenaline
  Push! Push!
  Birthing pain

  Adrenaline
  Gift from above
  Birthing pain
  Awash in love

  Gift from above
  New life springs
  Awash in love
  Angels sing

  New life springs
  Feel the rush
  Angels sing
  Push! Push!

  

   

  Spring has finally sprung in Michigan. The massive piles of snow are not all melted yet, but they are shrinking. A few trees have gotten that fuzzy look as leaves and blossoms tentatively peer out at the April sky. And most encouraging of all, daffodils are beginning to push out of the earth and crocuses are actually blooming! Finally, some color! It was a long and painful labor. At times I felt like standing over the spots where I knew crocus bulbs were buried under a few inches of soil and a few feet of snow and shout encouragement at them. "Push! Push! You can do it, Mother Earth!"

  This is today's offering, using prompt #10 Encouragement, for the NPM Scavenger Hunt hosted by murisopsis. I have ripped a page from murisopsis’ book of poetry forms and attempted to express the encouragement I feel in a pantoum. If I have understood the rules correctly, each stanza is four lines with a rhyming pattern of ABAB. Each stanza uses lines 2 & 4 of the preceding stanza for lines 1 & 3. The final stanza also uses lines 1 & 3 of the first stanza for lines 2 &4. Is that about as clear as squishy spring mud?

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