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Janice Falls's avatar

May the next four years be as rich Amrita!

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

If I live so long, I'm sure they will be! Thanks, Jan.

Jan Haag's avatar

Bravo on five years of daily poems! Quite the accomplishment! Keep 'em coming!

Arlene Szalay's avatar

Hurray! Making beauty in the world that wasn't here before.

Here is my attempt.

This roller coaster spring, warm, cold, wet, dry

The seasons are changing every day in everyway

The lilacs redolent in the unexpected heat

As surprising as our late in life grandchildren

In the delivery room, the peaceful birth

Suddenly changes as the team steps in to help the distressed newborn

The new moon rises to greet this precious life.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Wonderful poem! I hope the little one is doing well now? Love you, Arlene

Yesterday Jane's avatar

Your daily writing is good practice, Amrita! You're an inspiration to me. Interesting to build a poem with a recipe. I never tried that. The closest I got to that was teaching high school students how to pass the standardized writing test. (a) if the prompt asks you for your favorite animal and your favorite animal is a pterodactyl, but you don't know how to spell that, make your favorite animal a dog. (b) You need to show that you know how to use semicolons. Write a simple sentence like my dog is yellow. Then add a simple clauses using however to link it. My dog is yellow; however, when he's angry he turns purple. I had a solid passing rate. :)

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

What an INCREDIBLE practical way to approach those tests! Wow, lucky students.

Joyce Beth McMurtrey's avatar

Happy to be here!

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

So happy to have you be here!

Moudi Sbeity's avatar

May you always be writing and sharing your tender redolent poems.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Bless you, Habibi.

Stephen T Berg's avatar

That's significant! Worth celebrating. I lift a glass in your direction.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Thanks! I'm toasting with you!