Today at dVerse Poets Pub, Grace has given us the word “green” for the Quadrille word prompt “. What a lovely word for the blending of late spring and early summer. Poems must use the prompt word (title doesn’t count) in a poem of exactly 44 words – no more, no less. I am writing this poem in memory of my friend Peggie Duggan who died a year ago May 15. Her memory is ever green among those of us who were gifted by her light.
Tender Green
when love was green
and tenderly grew through the still
frozen ground of winter –
when green memories bloomed
in early spring frost –
I reach back to draw them near again
but they dissolve in my weeping hands
and return to sleep in frozen earth
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