An Awe & Wonder Journal Series
Awe & Wonder is our 2023 annual theme at Tweetspeak Poetry, because we know how important awe and wonder are, to help people not just survive, but thrive.
Over at our poetry prompt site, The Write to Poetry, we’ve got a new awe and wonder series on the way (for our paid subscribers). We hope you’ll consider joining us!
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We also invite you to share your Awe & Wonder poems or journal excerpts here in the comment box, throughout 2023. We’d love to read!
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Sharmen Oswald says
Two Rose of Sharon Trees
I sit and sip the coffee
That singes the very
Tip of my tongue.
Sun just peeping over
The tree line,
Heralds the day.
Chattering birds come and feed
Announcing to each other
There’s breakfast.
Through the steam from my cup
I spy two rose of sharon trees,
One purple one white,
A married pair
Standing guard over
The butterfly bush.
These trees are heirloom
Two generations
Rooted from my mother’s
And from my grandmother’s.
I frame this moment
To hold it in memory’s bank
Awestruck so that I can
Retrieve it when I need to
Revel in the joy of
Two rose of sharon trees.
L.L. Barkat says
What a lovely scene, Sharmen. Now I want coffee by the Rose of Sharons! 🙂
I have some planted at the side of the house, and they are amazingly prolific (now they are at the back and the front of the house, too, with no help from me 😉 .) Such exotic flowers. And they make the bees really, really happy. 🙂
Sharmen Oswald says
When I had bees, their favorite spot was with the Rose of Sharons and the Butterfly Bush. Then it became my favorite spot.
L.L. Barkat says
Sounds like the perfect trajectory of favorites. 🙂