I’ve been reading a few blogs lately, trying to be inspired again (not that I haven’t been), but to find something to help me write my way out of a block.  This month is poetry month.  Not that I’m a poet, but my young middle school self, thought she was pretty good at it when she would huddle with her best friend and pop out love poems that only pre-teens can imagine.

A writing site, which I’m a member of, posts things for inspiration that I usually never do, but today I decided to try my hand at it.  The instructions were: What do you love? What have you lost? What’s your favorite thing in nature? Let’s combine them into a poem!  Here’s what I came up with.

The sun’s warmth
pinches my cheeks.
Its light brightens the room
just like dad did when he walked in;
when he wasn’t just a memory.

I watch an Osprey
perched high on our boat mast,
spread it’s wings and demand attention
to the present, leaving the
past behind…for now.

Sometimes what you love, lost, and favorite things, can best be described in how you write about it.   I obviously don’t do any rhyming…well not since I got past those pre-teen years.  I don’t consider myself to be a poet, but this has sure helped to break the block.