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Poetry Please!

Chris Hall52 Comments

What a lovely month for April. I was so pleased to be included – just a year ago:
‘Poetry Treasures 3: Passions‘ by Kaye Lynne Booth & Robbie Cheadle.

January guest – Robbie Cheadle
February guest – Smitha Vishwanath
March guest – Abbie Taylor
April guest – Chris Hall
May guest – Yvette M. Calliero
June guest – Willow Willers
July guest – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
August guest – Patty Fletcher
September guest – Yvette Prior
October guest – Judy Mastrangelo
November guest – Penny Wilson
Special guest – Colleen M. Chesebro
Special guest – D. Wallace Peach

April is my guest appearance which is a big bonus since one of my poems is about Earth Day which is an important message.

What will become of us?

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Image credit: Mother Earth by gedomenas

Earth Day – Monday 22nd April 2024
The poem is a metaphor. From the start of begin of the of beautiful Mother Earth around the world. Then it moves on. The planet is smaller, more unsure and frightening, wondering how life with remain.

For a little while, during lockdown and covid, Mother Earth had a brief respite where the noise of engines fell silent and wild animals walked the streets, it seemed that nature just might have a chance, but once again, pollution spews, plastic continues to fill the oceans and the ice caps are melting even more quickly.

Today, Earth Day 2024, I find my poem is just as relevant, maybe more so.
https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

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I am particularly pleased that Robbie Cheadle read my poems What will become of us?
You Tube – there it is.

Purchase Poetry Treasures 3: Passions from Books2Read and Amazon: Paperbook and Kindle (sadly for me, only ebook is available from South Africa, but never mind).

However, during the month of April, all poetry volumes on the WordCrafter Press backlist are on sale for only $2.99 each. Find this with Kaye Lynne Booth here.

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I first wrote my poem, ‘What will become of us?‘ back in April 2019 from the prompt ‘What do you see?‘ from the wonderful Hélène Vaillant, although sadly she’s gone to a better place.

52 thoughts on “Poetry Please!”

  4. Following the quote shared by Denise at SSS,
    (Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
    – Leonard Cohen),
    I can confidently say, dear Chris, that your ash is rich and meaningful.

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  7. I remembered this poem but I hadn’t remembered the way you did the font colors and the tree shape. Starting with green at the top and then going to brown and then red, really makes a visual to go with the words. 😀

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  20. I sure love this poem, Chris.

    Yes, the lockdown was more like life should be, but isn’t. I adored walking in the quiet.

    Anyway, Robbie, love listening to you read. You read Chris’ poem beautifully.

    Congratulations to all on this wonderful collection!

    Happy Earth Day!

    🌺🌎🌍🌏🌺

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