Today's prompt from napowrimo.net is "to write a poem that deals with the poems, poets, and other people who inspired you to write poems." Your 95th Birthday
10 year old me listens, enthralled as standing tall, hands folded a schoolgirl inside you recite a poem of the Titanic For years now all through school I imagined you who lived to 102 and the age you were at each historic event to place time in my mind only now to realize when the Titanic went down you were 14 hearing of a world freezing slow into slumber even as you rose up from the birthing waters of childhood into adolescence I still search for the poem. Comments are closed.
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AuthorHi! My name is Martina, and I write picture books, riddles, limericks, additional poems, and puppet shows. I taught first grade, second grade, and kindergarten in the United States and now live in Switzerland where I enjoy good stories and poems with my husband and our three children. Archives
April 2020
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