Can Poems Fall in Love?

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Molly at Nix the Comfort Zone for Roundup.

Exciting news: next week Shannon Bramer will be here to talk about her book Nightmare Jones (illus. by Cindy Derby)!

For today I've got a new Tuesday 2-Minute Writing Tip for you...and it was inspired by a Mary Lee Hahn poem she shared on a Poetry Friday post last year. Thanks, Mary Lee!

It's February, which means hearts are everywhere! Perhaps that's why today's ArtSpeak: WOMEN poem is a love poem of sorts. It's also a color poem because I was stuck, so I pulled out my Sherwin-Williams color chip case. (Every poet should have one, yes?)

I "matched" colors with the colors on this gorgeous Georgia O'Keeffe piece, and voila! Thanks so much for reading.

On the Day This Poem Fell in Love

the world was briny,
cloudless

sky streaked with gaiety
and knockout orange

earth pulsing green vibes
tipped with the taste

of juneberry—
that free spirit of the forest—

and every canyon yawned
freshwater and rapture blue

- Irene Latham