Star Date 4.1.18

April. National Poetry Month.

Goal: Write a new poem each day of the month

if ya going to be a writer...you need to write

ode to Jason Reynolds who reminded me that ya just gotta do it. 

dusting off the cobwebs of my blog I remember the younger

more hopeful

self

who loved to write

and play

and dance with the words. 

hope ain't no big dream or take over the world plan

or ceo office.

it's a splash of cream in the coffee

and

3 am mama cried out in the dark.

it's pushing back the piles of laundry

and papers and unread books to find

a blank space that can be labeled 

mine.