Barbara Ehrentreu's Blog: Rising from the Ashes - Posts Tagged "beginnings"

Every April is Poetry Month when you try to write at least one poem a day. For me it sometimes turns into three poems a day and I post in various places. This year I will be posting my poems here, on Facebook on my page and maybe in Poeming Friends. Here is my first poem. Very excited and if you want to join me in this you can go here:

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April Poem A Day
Day 1
Prompt: Write a poem about optimism and beginnings

Beginnings
Before anything begins there is energy
Floating around in the atmosphere of my life
A palpable feeling of excitement fills my mind
As if bubbles had formed and like champagne
They collect and when the time
For beginnings arrives they explode
From my body as tiny shivers of expectation

Collect in my stomach as butterflies
And surround me with the most gossamer threads
Of hope and wonderment
Everything is new and fresh
The moment is a blank slate
Upon which you can write events
Yet to come and I take a deep breath

Pick up the pen of my life
And start to scribble as fast as I can
So it all gets on there
But in these moments
I am not thinking only acting

Funny how the bubbles are only there
For an instant but they carry me through
As I continue to write my story
And I know that afterward
I will look back on this time
And wonder if the excitement of this beginning
Exceeded the actual experience of
Being part of it and will ponder this
Thought as my fingers tap letters
To record those feelings.
Copyright 2024 by Barbara Ehrentreu

Until the next time. Please comment with your own poems if you want to share. Also, I am going to start interviewing authors here. So, please let me know if you want to be part of this. Contact me on here or on Facebook messenger. I am:
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