We are nine days into April, 2013 and already I am running to keep up with my fellow poets who seem able to turn out fresh poems on a daily basis every time National Poetry Month rolls around. Oh, to be so prolific! There should be a solution for those of us from whom poems spring only at the unction of a muse: The 30-30 phrase a day challenge, perhaps.
So here's to those of you who fail at 30-30 challenges year after year. Let's settle. Settle for one rich phrase a day, recorded in a "carry-with" notebook. That 10-second seed of inspiration that might later become poem. Let's grab those as they pass. All day long. All month long. Maybe all year long. And be satisfied that the poet inside was listening. And be fertile ground when the seed begins to sprout and take shape.
Today's phrase: "...but for beginnings, I would yet be nestled inside myself, curled in a fetal shell, afraid of light."