Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Napowrimo #28: intuition

Prompt for Day 28
Take a moment to remember an "a-ha" moment in your life. Write this prompt on your page. Free-write but don’t write a poem yet. Instead, go about your business of the day purposefully not writing a poem. Listen. Wait for at least 2 hours and then write your poem from the words your intuition and your free-writing gave you.


The Lilacs Are In Full Bloom

coloring the air dark purple.
My daughter Kate sits
on the front steps, an almost
cosmic awareness sustaining
her slender frame.
Call it feminine intuition,
let it blaze in giant letters
across the spring sky.
She knows what she needs to know
and everyone knows she knows.
She has the inherent ability
to see things intuitively.
A a woman, she is resilient,
secure in a world of gut feelings
and second sights.
She can roar when necessary.

7 comments:

1965 Footprints said...

Here's to being a woman! I wouldn't trade it!

Julie Jordan Scott said...

:-) ME NEITHER~!

We are women, we can roar whenever the heck we want!

(Thank you for writing so beautifully to my prompt!)

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Robin said...

Michelle--LOVE the last line of this poem! Very nice poem.

Anonymous said...

Very nice indeed. The final, externalizing/ contrasting line really pops and punctuates this piece.

Katie said...

honored.

Dan said...

My lilac is just starting to bloom. I swear, I go out to the porch ten times a day, just to breathe.

rallentanda said...

This is a lovely tribut to your daughter.She must be so pleased that her mother is singing
her praises to the four corners of the globe.