Poetry in Five Minutes or Less

For this year's National Poetry Month, I shared lickety-split bits of micropoetry each day on Instagram. My rules: use photos I took each day and write the poetry in five minutes or less. (This was a fun break from my norm of a bazillion revisions!) Here are six of my favs....

1.

Orange marries mint

where the berries lie

on tile blue as night sky

before dreaming begins.

4.

If perfection exists,

might she don the disguise

of wild flowers in a little 

glass on a rainy day?

8.

We know every exit

is an entrance elsewhere,

but we don’t know the where—

else how would mystery visit?

10.

We dwell all the way

to the horizon of our lives. 

May the view from the sill

of our hearts be vast.

25.

Everywhere, beauty

shines her light—

unfurling petals,

greening leaves.

Even the shadows smile 

at her bright excess.

28.

The constant fight with self—

who thinks she’s beyond 

rest—is gladly lost 

each time my soul

insists on a Sabbath, 

& my body’s eyes

watch leaves grow

on page or tree,

& my spirit eyes

see all as new enough again 

to return to—with 

better work & world.