National Poetry Month: Mourning Song (21 of 30)

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Today is Poetry Friday!!! I'm joining the Poetry Friday Community to spread a little poetry love. Karen Edmiston* is hosting this week's celebration. (Thanks, Karen.) Stop by for your daily dose of poetry. 

It's National Poetry Month. I will be posting a poem each day. No theme. I'm just going to follow the spark each day, wherever I might find it. It's bound to be messy. 




Ken Thomas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

morning.
dove wakes the earth,
a melancholy song,
serene lament of seasons past;
mourning.

© Cathy L. Mere, 2023

Comments

  1. Karin Fisher-GoltonApril 21, 2023 at 10:39 PM

    I like this cinquain with the homophones echoing each other and both setting a tone!

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  2. Mary LeeApril 22, 2023 at 9:32 AM

    Dove song is perfectly captured here -- both serene AND a lament.

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  3. Linda MitchellApril 22, 2023 at 10:41 AM

    mourning...you make that last word so pretty

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  4. Linda BApril 22, 2023 at 7:39 PM

    It would be loving if many paid attention to this brief poem. Thanks, Cathy!

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  5. Rose CappelliApril 23, 2023 at 11:03 AM

    Beautiful cinquain, Cathy! I especially like the juxtaposition of "morning" and "mourning" and the feelings of joy yet sadness created between those two words. Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Karen Edmisten April 23, 2023 at 1:25 PM


    "Serene lament of seasons past" — gorgeous, Cathy.

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  7. Patricia FranzApril 24, 2023 at 8:49 PM

    Beautiful! I posted a mourning dove haiku earlier this month.

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