Poetry Friday--Spark Postcard Exchange

The month of April saw another art postcard exchange organized by Amy Souza of SPARK: Art from Writing: Writing from Art. The exchange takes place between the quarterly SPARK challenges. (The next SPARK challenge will take place in May, I encourage you to participate!) For April I wrote two senryu (haiku format, but about human nature rather than Nature), and two cherita (a story told in three stanzas of 1, 2, 3 lines), and illustrated them digitally. In the past I decided upon a theme. In January, my theme was "tea," for October 2016, I used "October," last July, I used "endless summer heat." This time, I couldn't find a theme, so I wrote four unrelated poems. Three ended up closely related afterall!

Text:

April thoughts

they arrange to meet
in the park...

an antihistamine,
then his fancy can resume
its turning

Text:

he buys flowers
...she does not mention
it's the wrong day

Text:

morning sun

a spider's web
dripping with dew

only for a moment
does he hesitate
to brush it away

Text:

shasta daisy--
Fibonacci gets me to
"he loves me"

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

I'm heading out to the Mass Poetry Festival in Salem, MA. I'll be three days immersed in poetry! If I manage to take legible notes, perhaps I'll do a festival review next Friday.

I may not be able to reply to comments left here until I return on Sunday. Jama's Alphabet Soup is hosting the first Round-Up in May, stop by, and then have a great weekend!