We’re now just TWO days away from the start of March Madness Poetry 2013!
Continuing my one-a-day posting of my Top Ten favorite poems from #MMPoetry 2012 … today we witness the talent of Laura Purdie Salas through a poem prompted by her 3-seed word “knack” in the first round:
3-knack
Natural Talent
by Laura Salas
Sky has a knack for
pounding out rain
Ground has a knack for
receiving
Spring has a knack for
bursting out blooms
Seed has a knack for
believing
This poem captured 67% of the vote in its matchup and helped Laura reach the second round. I adore the personification in this poem. Following the first three talents of sky, ground, and spring in natural terms, the seed’s role in the process is simply to believe. What an image and feeling this creates, in so few words. Click here to see this poem as it originally appeared in #MMPoetry 2012.