Bring it on April!!! 🌻📝🎂

 

Farewell, March!

My sweet April, it's almost time to meet National Poetry Month (NaPoMo) and my birthday season, and wake up my besties, Pen and Paper daily, again! I welcome you with open arms as I warm up and activate my inner poet to actively participate in this year's Poem-A-Day challenge. Since 2017, I've have greatly indulged in this wonderful experience to challenge myself,  my critical thinking and writing skills, and to simply just share what I find as my idea of true freedom (since my young poet age of 7...words of expression from the depth of my heart) without limitation, judgement, recognition, and validation. 

Over the last few months, I’ve been more focused on close bonds with loved ones, traveling, journaling, healing, grief counseling, self-care, reading old poems and journals; reading, admiring and listening to other artists' work; and editing literature for future projects. In this new season, of lyrical art, as it approaches, I look forward to indulging on another 30 prompts for 30 days... writing and sharing what sets my soul on fire or set my spirit free. As always, I’m curious about the daily prompts that will be openly shared along with the emotions, feelings, thoughts, and perspectives that will be provoked, awakened, and released. Yep, right here, in this space. 

Since my last NaPoMo, so much has happened in a year and in this world: some overly joyed happiness, some unforgettable sadness, high-stakes conflicts between nations and within nations, a vast amount of anger and disrespect, assumptions without evidence, misjudgment without communication, obtuse disappointments, acute loving, extensive breakthroughs, novel discoveries, little rights and wrongs, severity after severity, high and low risks, record-breaking news and heartbreaks, advantages and disadvantages, and of course, my most ongoing personal battles, grief and loss.

With that said, I don't know what else will be said, and only God knows what I'll shower through pen to paper, in April, before May flowers. May you click back here, stick your nose back around to see with your very own eyes, what they'll tell you!


To all poets, happy poeming my darlings. Continue to be YOUrself as you free YOUrself!

To all poet lovers, happy reading. We love you for loving our weird asses! 😘🫂


💜Love, 

D'ElegantOne 






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