A Golden Shovel Poem: April 5, 1934
April 5, 1934: Another dust storm dark and thick. You / couldn’t see the sun, no weather fit / for even necessary work
Found Poetry
Found poetry based on Great Plains diaries (1920 – 1957)
April 4, 1943: Still It Rains
The NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) prompt for today is to write a lune (an American Haiku). The poem below uses Jack Collum’s lune variant, which is a simple three-line poem of three words, five words, and three words. The words and phrases are all taken directly from my great aunt Hattie’s Great Plains diaries …
May 8, 1945, A Day One Comments On
May 8, 1945: The day began like any other in early / May, the morning sun cast shadows long