Paula Schulz
Autumn trees let go their hands their hands!
The beauty of a life is in how it gives itself away.
© 2019 Paula Schulz
Paula Schulz has been involved in several ekphrastic projects, nominated for a Pushcart and has poetry forthcoming in The Anglican Review.
Derek Kannemeyer
A Shropshire Codger
Easter in the cherry tree woods again—my seventieth spring!
Such greens; such light, last blossoms. Such snowdrift pools and shadows.
© 2019 Derek Kannemeyer
Derek Kannemeyer is a recently retired high school teacher whose writing has appeared in dozens of online and print publications, from Rattapallax and Smartish Pace to Fiction International and Rolling Stone. His 2018-19 publications include a light verse collection, a chapbook (winner of the inaugural Blue Nib chapbook contest), and about 25 individual pieces in a wide range of journals and anthologies. He grew up in England (though not Shropshire) and lives in Richmond, VA.
30 for 30 is sponsored by Potomac Review
Thank you both for conjuring up these lovely trees! Paula, I especially love your second line!
Joan, you’ve been so good about not just reading these poems (I’ve been doing that too!) but commenting. Now that it’s my day to share a piece, I see how encouraging that is, to let the writers know someone is looking. I liked your piece too!
Derek, I rolled on the sounds, especiall in Line 2, it’s stunning and lyrical.
Paula, dropped hands for leaves, now that a metaphor I’ll remember your poem for… Thank you.
“ the beauty of life is how it gives itself away.” love this line, Paula.
I like the sense of awe, delight, gratitude, joy—all this on an Easter morning. thank you, Derek.