Beetlebung and Kettlehole--April Poems

All This Love

A Prose-Poem


This morning, the Queen Palm in the front yard is waving its fronds to greet the breeze, fresh like clean laundry under the bright sun. A celebration of some kind it must be, same as Taylor Swift’s mom presenting her with an award and a moving speech last night, her cancer scare thrown in for the bitter edge. Those bitter edges…if you just stare them down while you look into them...Then you see the loving hands, shining cups, people touching people like our local food bank launching Summer Hunger Campaign. Such sweet music in everything and everything's making so much sense that, if I have to stroll away someday, I’d so miss this world. If I could, I would fit them all into a picture frame and take it with me to remind me of beautiful people, green earth, and all this love.


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Prompt: make a poem from 4 things: 1) an object in your home 2) a natural thing in the landscape 3) a fact or news item from print media 4) a fact or news item from tv, radio, or Internet (the Relief from Writer’s Block exercise of Thomas Lynch)

1. Photo Frame
2. Queen Palm
3. Local Food bank launches Summer Hunger Campaign –Port St. Lucie News
4. TV last night-- Country music awards: Taylor Swift’s Mum Presented Her With An Award And Gave A Moving Speech After Cancer Diagnosis