Monday, March 26, 2018

DMC: "Passions" by Karen Eastlund




PASSIONS
          ~with a line from "Truth, by Tyrone Bittings"

Put your passions to good use
Ponder them
and pursue them to
fulfillment. Don’t cry
tears of regret. Work! Find a way to
bloom! Then pump fists and shout!
 

© 2018 Karen Eastlund. All rights reserved.

"Truth, by Tyrone Bittings" © 2018 Nikki Grimes, from BETWEEN THE LINES.


Click HERE to read this month's interview with Nikki Grimes. She has challenged us to write a golden shovel poem using a line from one of the poems in the post.

Leave your golden shovel on our March 2018 padlet. All contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration this Friday, March 30th, and one lucky participant will win a copy of her new companion novel to Bronx Masquerade:





3 comments:

  1. Thank you, Karen. Thank you for all the things this rallying cry stands for — justice, creativity, togetherness... all the things that make life worth living.

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  2. A just right poem for this Monday, Karen, keeping our passions strong! Love the 'passion', 'ponder' and 'pursue'.

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  3. Thank you, ladies! This was an interesting challenge.

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