summer haiku: watermelon edition
Red watermelon
Juicy, dripping down my neck
Coolness sweats hot day
prompt poem
Dance anyway
It takes more than
the time has come
A letter from the future
Nowhere/hear this
Clear Rhythm
A Drafty forgiveness
For the Good TImes
Meet Me outside
Love me out loud or leave me alone
Heaven’s hues yes! Heaven's hues yes!
Show up anyway
Water lets you feel free
My skin is tan with freckles across my nose
Both my children will have them too
in the exact same spots one day
A hue of past summers
I am nine years old and on the swim team
I am volunteering to help handicap kids
learn how to swim
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We both relax once we glide into the water
His body takes shape outside of a wheelchair
I feel the stiffness flow out like an exhaled breath
We both know the moment he becomes
light as a feather, floating on his back
His smile is brighter than the New Mexico sun shining
In that moment I know it is all about energy and connection
Years later, swimming laps at the YMCA, remembering
a New Mexico’s sun shimmering on a blue pool
I know now that was the moment giving way to
my purposes, passions, professions and profoundness
I became the core of who I am
A poet, a teacher, a student, a mother, a special needs advocate
A human connecting with individuals and communities
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