Almost a NEST

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday. Be sure to visit Jone at Deo Writer for Roundup. 

Today begins our THIS POEM IS A NEST Blog Tour! I'm so grateful to these generous bloggers/poets/humans for sharing about this book that means so much to me. In spite of covid and these troubling times, this book, poetry Fridays, and poetry in general makes me feel connected to all of you, to myself, and to the world. Thank you.

Friday 9/25  Kirby Larson blog & A Word Edgewise/Linda Mitchell

Monday 9/28 Reflections on the Teche/Margaret Simon 
Tuesday 9/29  Live Your Poem/Irene Latham
Wednesday 9/30  Laura Shovan blog
Friday 10/2  Poetry for Children/Sylvia Vardell
Saturday 10/3  Smack Dab in the Middle 
Monday 10/5  TeacherDance
Friday 10/9  More Art 4 All/Michelle Kogan 
Also, if you haven't seen it on Twitter, I am doing a giant 12-book + NEST giveaway in honor of THIS POEM IS A NEST:
Simply subscribe to my e-newsletter. And if you are already a subscriber, then you are automatically entered. :)
I did manage to craft a new ArtSpeak: RED poem amidst all this nesting... thanks so much for reading!

At the Window

I stand at the window
as snowdrops whirr

I dream at the window
as tree limbs shiver

I breathe at the window
as sunbeams stir —

I am not cold.
I am listening,
                learning —

No matter how others hurry
the world at the window

says, I am here,
                 waiting.

- Irene Latham