Prompt:

Read new poems! I am including some favorite poetry collections for young people in this post. Reading helps me to enter my creative mind, and I love poems as keys to opening up dreams, visions and new ideas. Find a new poem that you love and write a response to it. Think of your poems in conversation with each other. And let me know what you are loving to read right now!

Poem 15/30 excerpt

my eyes feel tender

watering at every turn

long to close them – still.