Imagine the Possibilities

I’ve been pouring over Irene Latham’s This Poem Is a Nest for days. Irene started with an original poem, “Nest,” as her source poem, then went on to create 161 nestling poems from the original words. Nestling poems are found poems taken from an existing poem and used to create new poems, or “nestlings.” The words or word parts must be used in the same order as they appear in the original poem. The title does not need to be part of the original.

This is such an incredible book! Irene even provides a Table of Contents and an Index.

Of course I had to give it a go. I used the third section, Autumn, from Irene’s original “Nest” to create my nestling. My morning walk inspired me to think of the possibilities I might find along the trail.

Morning Walk

leaves flood
deer swerve
turtle splashes
clouds still
faith hums

For more poetry fun, head over to Wee Words for Wee Ones where you’ll find today’s Poetry Friday roundup from Bridget Magee.

This is the second year of the Fall Writing Frenzy hosted by Kaitlyn Sanchez and Lydia Lukidis. My entry was inspired by a cumulative poem by Nicola Davies, “The Loaf That Jack Baked,” in Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature and this image:

The Flower That Grew in My Garden
by Rose Cappelli

This is the flower, wild and free,
that grew in my garden.

This is the bee, all fuzzy and buzzy,
that carried the spores
to the flower that grew in my garden.

This is the blossom, yellow and full,
that beckoned the bee
to the flower that grew in my garden.

This is the bud, as green as a pea,
that fashioned the blossom
that beckoned the bee
to the flower that grew in my garden.

This is the shoot, with heart-shaped leaves,
that produced the bud
that fashioned the blossom
that beckoned the bee
to the flower that grew in my garden.

This is the seed, so striped and ripe,
that sprouted the shoot
that produced the bud
that fashioned the blossom
that beckoned the bee
to the flower that grew in my garden.

This is the dog with the fur, dark and dense,
that shimmied and shook and scattered the seed
that sprouted the shoot
that produced the bud
that fashioned the blossom
that beckoned the bee
to the flower that grew…

Wild and free!