Some days writing opportunities mesh, with one complementing another. Verselove offered a form today: an etheree. I’ve written to this form before (you can see an etheree about poppies here). And then on a network call this afternoon, I had an invitation to write in response to the National Poetry Month poster, with some lines from a Naomi Shihab Nye poem.

Here is my etheree:

This is the World

shared

you, me

together

this is the world

I want to live in

dancing to my own beat

feeling rhythms inside me

different from those you’re tapping

synched or syncopated, we can lift

each other, singing out tunes the world needs

@kd0602