Give me a poem

give me a poem that tinkles
like goldfinches or thunders
in a moor-gallop

that beats like the wings of geese
or, on an early spring morning, drops
and drips like icicles

that whistles in a windy aspen grove
or stirs warm air like lacewings
and buzzing bees

give me a poem that tumbles
the heart or ripples
the soul

please

Kim M. Russell, 28th November 2023

Image by Gary Bendig on Unsplash

It’s Tuesday and time for Poetics at the dVerse Poets Pub, where Merril is hosting; she tells us that today is Giving Tuesday, which is the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the US. She says that it’s a ‘movement to mobilize giving to charitable organizations and non-profits’ and is ‘seen as a counterpart to the flurry of shopping and commercialization at this time of year’.

The challenge is to write about giving or not-giving, with inspiration in an extract from Alberto Rios’ poem ‘When Giving is All We have’, as well as poems by Robert Graves and Dorothy Parker. We can be sincere or cynical, introspective or expansive, serious or frivolous. We must just use some form of the word ‘give’ in our poems or titles.

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