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April Photo ‘n Poem Prompt—What the Tree Sees

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Trees Reflected by Kelle Sauer
Join us with photographer Kellē Sauer, who’s prompting us at Poetic Earth Month, to see what the tree sees—in poems and/or photos.

Once you find your photo or your poem, post it on Instagram, on your blog, or on a public Facebook post, and please share the link with us in the comment box below.

Be sure to post your submission by Friday, April 26. Kellē will be collecting a few favorites to feature next month!

 

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  1. Glynn says

    April 9, 2019 at 8:54 am

    I’m spending the month poetically at the Shaw Nature Reserve in Franklin County, Missouri, about 40 miles west of St. Louis. It is a special place. My poem for the prompt, “What the tree sees,” is here: https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2019/04/what-tree-sees.html

    Reply
    • Kelly Sauer says

      April 22, 2019 at 2:41 pm

      Glynn, I caught this over on Facebook last week – love this. Thank you so much for being here!

      Reply
  2. JoyAnne O'Donnell says

    April 12, 2019 at 11:38 am

    Tree’s Dance

    The tree’s fill us with angels breath
    coolness carries us free
    into the magical forest
    of flowers and soil
    to dance in the spring
    every moment in April
    and May
    a array of golden curtains
    sparkles the sun’s dance.

    Reply
    • Kelly Sauer says

      April 22, 2019 at 2:43 pm

      Your leaves must be back… I love that sense of weightlessness you’ve created here. Your “array of golden curtains” could describe the draping boughs of my eucalyptus tree in the morning light… So vivid!

      Reply
  3. Richard Maxson says

    April 17, 2019 at 3:36 am

    Here is a photograph I took in the Jay B. Starkey Wilderness in central Florida on Pinterest, the only public site I use now. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/323274079500542776/promote

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    • Kelly Sauer says

      April 22, 2019 at 2:44 pm

      Richard, this is incredible. The shimmering of these trees in the water is almost tangible. Thank you so much for being here!

      Reply
  4. Kelly Sauer says

    April 22, 2019 at 3:24 pm

    In which my own prompt prompts me…

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10161835220780475&set=a.10152465989650475&type=3&theater

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  5. Isabelle G. Schlegel says

    April 24, 2019 at 11:24 am

    Thunderstorm

    Draw
    me into your
    earthen roots,
    ancient and divine
    as the
    rain, you take
    your majestic time to
    drink.

    Dot the golden
    fields of late,
    your branches in
    forever bloom-
    so when you yawn
    those lush faces
    bask in passing
    sun, hide in
    passing clouds.

    Your wrinkled features,
    mossy rivets reflecting
    drops of light-
    they count the
    memories, in your
    countless rings. To think

    They will all be
    burnt beyond
    natural restoration-
    a cruel simplicity
    that steals its wisdom

    with a single
    lightning bolt.

    Reply
    • Kelly Sauer says

      April 25, 2019 at 12:03 pm

      Oh I really love this, Isabelle! I just want to sit with it, watch it pass, again and again. Beautiful.

      Reply

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