April 13th - National Poetry Month 2023

It's that time of the day again! Usually, between 7 and 9 PM each weekday, I'll post another daily poem article. Today's poem had to be about rainbows, so here's mine!

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Surprise

It was raining all week

Incessant pounding of droplets

Ceaseless barrages hitting the dirt

As everyone awoke, the sun finally rose

Kids ran to their windows and to the glass they pressed their nose

Below all the clouds, just behind the tall buildings

A gleam of color, an arc above the air

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Noodly Girl also wrote a poem for today, and it's my favorite so far!

The Unattainable Everything

Shining bright

In misted daylight

A thousand hues

Yet just seven

It's entrancing

Alluring

A gleam on metal

A shine in the window

They're everywhere

And nowhere

For only a second

everything

and nothing

just a bit of air and water

in a world on fire

just a flash of color

amid endless blue sky

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I loved Noodly Girl's poem! She had a different perspective on the topic given, and that's what this challenge is all about! Expressing your thoughts on the daily theme, and seeing other writers' creativity. Please remember that you can submit a poem for next week (or the week after!), and the procedure is in the original post, linked below. Happy National Poetry Month!

National Poetry Month Challenge