Snow Day poem

 Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Linda at A Word Edgewise for Roundup.

First a nod to Nikki Giovanni who died earlier this week. What a bright light! I'm so glad so many of her words are still available to us. Her poem "Knoxville, Tennessee" is one I often share with students. Joy!

Today's ArtSpeak: FOLK ART features a winter scene by George Voronvsky. Just two more poems to go in this series!! Earlier this year I was inspired to write after two other George Voronvsky pieces:

Here Comes Summer

In the Season of Singing

For this poem I was thinking about writing. I was thinking about the book Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May and the poem "Wintering" by Sylvia Plath.  

And I was thinking about pie. . . because we've been watching the latest season of The Great British Baking Show. :) 

I wrote quite a few pages and versions, just playing, and I don't know that any of them all the way stick together, but I do like how this one ends with an unexpected (essential!) ingredient. Thanks so much for reading.

Snow Day

today

a slice of snow-pie
latticed by bare birch
and pink sky

bees asleep
wolves resting
in a lazy heap

let the rabbits frolic!
invite the deer to dance!

inside you
daffodils roar toward
the surface

finally you are free

- Irene Latham