Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…maybe even with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, W is for … A wandering kind of poem. 

Seasons

Fingernails ground in earth,
palm lines etched
black. We dig,
tools and gloves
forgotten inside
with sudden urge
for preparing soil,
planting seedlings, our
hopes for summer bounty.

I lie back in soft summer grass, a child unafraid
of spiders and worms crawling
over my prone body. Gaze up at clouds
to imagine I float among, perch
on top, dangle beneath
from a swing the shape of a dolphin.
Until winds scatter puffs back to heaven.

He crouches still,
hidden in pinprick
caves dotting the tundra.
You see him from above, spy
small movements, the only
signs of life in an eternal
winter landscape.

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Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter W.