Poems 5 & 6 for NaPoWriMo

Two more poems for National Poetry Writing Month, published in a batch to not clog my blog!

April 5th:

walking on his hind legs,

he stands just four feet tall;

he strolls along the swampy edge

of the river, webbed feet

squelching in the mud;

his eyes reflect the light

from the phone in his green hand;

it vibrates and he taps on the screen,

the pocket monster that appears

must please him, as he flicks his finger

up, throwing a small red ball,

he catches the little bug creature

and continues to walk along the shore

The prompt for this poem was a mythical creature doing something unusual, so I chose the Loveland Frogman (a local cryptid) playing Pokemon Go. One recent sighting of the Frogman was by a couple playing Pokemon Go in 2016.

April 6th:

hope starts as a seed; it

is tiny and unassuming -

the seed, but the

thing about seeds, is that

with a little love and care,

feathers of green spring from the soil

that grows until a bird

perches

in the heart of the tree, singing

the song from her

soul

The prompt for this poem was to make an acrostic poem that creates a sentence or phrase with the first word of each line. My phrase is the first two lines of Emily Dickinson's poem Hope is the thing with feathers.