National Poetry Month - #NaPoWriMo

As faithful readers know I've been busy with the launch of my new poetry book, Colours of Poetry, and the upcoming book launch party/poetry slam on Facebook, but I'm still writing a poem a day this April (inspired by prompts from one of my poetry groups). So I'm posting a bit of a catch-up post here, with my daily poems.

Day 1: Posted on my April 1st, Drabble Wednesday post: 

http://afstewartblog.blogspot.ca/2015/04/drabble-wednesday-april-fooling.html

Day 2:

Swords and Dragons

Wake the kingdom, bang the drum

The gloried knights, raising steel

Gather the host, what may come

We will make the dragon squeal

The gloried knights, raising steel

Rouse the fervour, swing the blade,

we will make the dragon squeal

March to grandeur, lead the raid

Rouse the fervour, swing the blade

Dragon fire, bring all to die

March to grandeur, lead the raid

See the shadows o’er the sky

Dragon fire, bring all to die

See the shadows o’er the sky

Gather the host, what may come

Wake the kingdom, bang the drum

Day 3:

A Willow in the Yard

Weathered,

a little broken

like me

But still standing

Weeping willow

they call you

bowing, bending

But still standing

Like me

Day 4:

Memento

Bitter smoke and lingering

reminders

The open window doesn't

alleviate

The smell of your cigars

permeates

the room

me

our broken lives

I miss you,

but you’re gone

Despite the scent of your cigars

Day 5:

Crossing Between

Dividing periphery, a flow

perchance to intersect, schism deep

Soft immersion, treading slow 

Dividing periphery, a flow

wholly submerged in the undertow

Surrender, to the undercurrent sweep

Dividing periphery, a flow

perchance to intersect, schism deep

~*~

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