The annual National Poetry Month Kidlit Progressive Poem is well underway, and along with other poets who have added a line before mine, I’m adding one today. Margaret Simon is our host, inviting 30 poets to create a communal poem throughout these 30 days of National Poetry Month.
My line follows Amy’s line from yesterday:
Open an April window
let sunlight paint the air
stippling every dogwood
dappling daffodils with flair
Race to the garden
where woodpeckers drum
as hummingbirds thrum
in the blossoming Sweetgum
Sing as you set up the easels
dabble in the paints
echo the colors of lilac and phlox
commune without constraints
Breathe deeply the gifts of lilacs
rejoice in earth’s sweet offerings
feel renewed-give thanks at day’s end
remember long-ago springs
Bask in a royal spring meadow
Tune in tomorrow to see what Margaret Simon adds! You can see the list of poets and their dates below.
April 1 Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
April 2 Tricia Stohr-Hunt at The Miss Rumphius Effect
April 3 Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge
April 4 Donna Smith at Mainely Write
April 5 Denise Krebs at Dare to Care
April 6 Buffy Silverman
April 7 Jone Rush MacCulloch
April 8 Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
April 9 Tabatha Yeatts at The Opposite of Indifference
April 10 Marcie Flinchum Atkins
April 11 Rose Capelli at Imagine the Possibilities
April 12 Fran Haley at Lit Bits and Pieces
April 13 Cathy Stenquist
April 14 Janet Fagel at Mainely Write
April 15 Carol Varsalona at Beyond LiteracyLink
April 16 Amy Ludwig VanDerwater at The Poem Farm
April 17 Kim Johnson at Common Threads
April 18 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
April 19 Ramona at Pleasures from the Page
April 20 Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading
April 21 Tanita Davis
April 22 Patricia Franz
April 23 Ruth at There’s no such thing as a Godforsaken town
April 24 Linda Kulp Trout
April 25 Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe
April 26 Michelle Kogan
April 27 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
April 28 Pamela Ross at Words in Flight
April 29 Diane Davis at Starting Again in Poetry
April 30 April Halprin Wayland at Teaching Authors
Common Threads 
Kim, the Kidlit Progressive Poem basks with delight with the arrival of your line. Lately, I had images of a beautiful meadow filled with flowers. You penned a line that brings my thoughts to mind.
“Bask in a royal spring meadow” takes the reader to another glorious space.
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Thank you, Carol. That’s often what I think about when I think of spring – a meadow!
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Thanks for adding another line that directs us to notice spring. A meadow full of bluebonnets, perhaps?
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Yes, yes! I would love a meadow filled with bluebonnets. Like in Texas Hill Country.
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Wonderful, Kim – we all just sat up a little straighter with “royal” – before flopping back in that welcoming meadow! Thanks for participating! :0)
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