Gavin Bennett's Blog: Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 432

For today’s prompt, write a spring poem. Maybe it feels like spring in your neck of the woods. Maybe it feels like a second (or third or tenth) wave of winter. According to the calendar, the first day of spring was yesterday, sooooo…

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Here’s my attempt at a Spring Poem:

“fresh soil”

i can feel it between my fingers
& smell the black earth ready
to take in seeds & tiny plants

the sun stays a little longer
each day as if to say it’s time
to return to your sacred roots

& it doesn’t matter if flowers
or veggies or strawberries
because everywhere every

thing is springing back to life

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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). His favorite season is actually autumn, but spring sets the fall into motion.

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