A poem needs companions
The words of writers
Who traveled this path before
A poem needs a question
Curiosity
Wonderings and discovery
A poem needs space
The distant view out windows
Fields to wander in
A poem needs light
Sunshine to balance the dark
Of difficult things
A poem needs time
A quiet introspection
Solitude, with cats
Notes: I’m pretty pleased that I managed to get prairie (sort of), poetry, AND cats squeezed into one poem, as those are the three topics I have most enjoyed writing about this month and written about most often. The stanzas mix haiku and reverse haiku. I wasn’t sure if reverse haiku was a thing when I was drafting this, but the Internet assures me it is. (There is even a version of reverse haiku which reverses syllable count and also insists on rhyme!). The poem is loosely inspired by the last couple of chapters of Mary Oliver’s wonderful book, A Poetry Handbook. And the cat pictured is Toast, who always takes a good photo.
the dirigible plum 
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