Today is the first day of National Poetry Month! Today’s prompt on Robert Brewer’s blog asks for a “New Arrival” poem. Visit the link below to post your own. Mine is below.
2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 1 | Write a Poem a Day Until May | WritersDigest.com.
Arrival
Sudden
on spare branches
against storm-darkened
sky, tiny
leaves glow,
immortal green,
on globe willows;
not there
yesterday,
dusty next week,
they spring
from nowhere,
expected but
astonishing
miraculous as morning
or the word
“again.”
One Way to Wonder 