Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was another that, while it initially stumped me (an occasional poem? what occasion??), ultimately worked for me. Here’s the prompt:
“…write an “occasional” poem. What’s that? Well, it’s a poem suited to, or written for, a particular occasion. This past January, lots of people who usually don’t encounter poetry got a dose when Amanda Gorman read her poem at President Biden’s inauguration….The poem you write can be for an occasion in the past or the future, one important to you and your family (a wedding, a birth) or for an occasion in the public eye.”
I chose an unusual occasion. See what you think ~
on the occasion of the pink moon ~
you are the rosy door into light
lantern in the night’s bleak darkness
so much is bleak these sickly days
you are the fish moon 🌙 the egg 🥚
moon the bright path home for shad
following the river’s serpentine
you are the Hanuman moon
the Buddha moon
ecumenical as my own expatriate
heart a doorway anyone may enter
you are the Ides of Ramadan
moonglow as the faithful share
bread you are music without tune
you are the grass moon a blush
of wildflowers furring the hillside’s
shaggy pelt heavy on the near horizon
you beckon rays of rosy gold fanned
against a breathless earth
hopeful we wait to see what you do
each of us waiting our own breaths
suspended as you are rising falling
Tea and Breath 