Two Poems and a Poem: Ritual One, Day 19

Two Poems:

“Easy Lynching on Herndon Avenue” by Richard Blanco 

“Burying Ground” by Barbara Kingsolver 

A Poem:

Sunny and Seventy-five

a haiku by ljkemp

pale morning light

seeps into breezy blue sky

leaves of grass exhale

A note:

This ritual is becoming increasingly difficult (as I expected it would). There was a section of the Kingsolver book that becoming unenjoyable for me, so I skipped over into the next section. Today’s poems were particularly solemn- both about death. Blanco’s was particularly horrifying. I chose instead to pull two lines, one from each, about the natural elements in the description. I reimagined them into a bit of joy on a perfect winter’s day in Florida. The lines:

From Blanco: “Only pale morning light seeping into blue sky...”

From Kingsolver: “Leaves of grass exhaling...”