Inspired by Anne Schneider's Alphabet Soup, I have written the following short poem. Yesterday at memoir class I used Anne's poem as a prompt. The ladies wrote stunning short poems and how I wish I had copies of each to reread.
This came about during our seven minute write and then I rewrote it this morning. I am sharing it with my Story Circle poetry group as a submission for October.
Dandelion Discourse
Taraxacum Officinalis, Greek
Scientific Name for Dandelion
Means disorder, remedy
i eat dandelion greens, no,
i don’t but
i’d like to try and capture
the blowball
from the dandy
spit them off the end of my
tongue as the fuzziness
makes words
stumble upon each other
spitting with pphhtt and thutt
my tongue pushes the tickles
out about, then sucking through
the stems, hollow as a straw
we kids pieced them together-
worn as necklaces
never sipping anything through them.
10/14/2022
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