Poem-ment-um

PAD Challenge day 20: For today’s prompt, take a line from an earlier poem (preferably from this month) to begin your poem for today. For instance, I took the final few lines of my poem from day 12 to start my example poem below. So scan through your earlier stuff to figure out where to start today.

I chose the second-last line in the poem from April 2nd; Poem Sea

 ...The Momentum of Moments

In the momentum of moments

In the masterpiece and mess

In the fist-a-cuff and kisses

In the hurt and happiness

In the yard of almost summer

In the wars we lose and win

In the crinkle and the twinkle

Of a lad's mischievous grin

In the grip of Old Man winter

When he refuses to leave

In the glory of glad branches

Granted snowflake-star reprieve

In the way we never weary

Of the wonder that love stirs

As we all love feeling special

By our special ‘hims and hers’

In the garden, in the woodland

In the barn or house or field

In the mist that forges mem’ries

From the ‘This’ that moments yield

In the early, pearly morning

Middle-day and musky dusk

In the burgeoning of blossoms

Or the crepe of hollow husk

In the rise and falling gavel

As tick-tock unravels years

Lies the tremor of a poem

That, left unpenned, disappears

© Janet Martin

This poem was one of those tremors I had to reel in before it turned into a tidal wave!