Day 9, time to go outside

For today, go outside and find something interesting in your yard. It might be a rock or a plant that has just bloomed. Write a 10-line poem about it.

Be creative: write obliquely without actually mentioning the item. This is a BIG challenge but you can do it. Here is an example I dashed off that considers the bloom of the first spring tulip.

She lifts her head

where for so long she slept

and struggled to stay alive.

Her lips burn, her arms

barely able to lift her weight.

What god above so cursed

her to think herself near death

only to pull her spirit forth

with a warm kiss, as if beloved?

Is this a game of love? Such a game

I would not wish to play.

But she is beloved. Her sleep

has restored her to health...

... and I rejoice to find her

nodding her golden head

in my garden.