This month’s poetry project was to write ____ is a word poems, a la Laura’s examples here.
I missed our monthly write-in due to travel but my pals tossed a few words my way just in the nick of time! Here goes…

MEMORY
By Liz Garton Scanlon
Memory is a fickle word,
a slippery promise
disappearing
through closed lips
like a hum, like a quiet,
reedy, accidental hum
that you don’t notice has come
and gone until someone says
do you remember that song?
and you think yes!
and you reach for it but
all that’s left is a silver shiver
of breath like a fish, like a glint
of scaled light.
SILENCE
By Liz Garton Scanlon
Silence is a patient word
like a cat without a bell
like a monk, like a child
with a secret closely kept
Silence is a word with room
a word with high ceilings
and the door ajar,
a welcoming word
that makes some people
uncomfortable
You’ll find others here:
Laura
Kelly
Tricia
Andi
Tanita
Mary Lee
Sara
Oh, and Linda at Teacher Dance hosts Poetry Friday today!
An Invitation
You’re invited to join our challenge for the month of November! We’re writing an Ode to Autumn. An ode is a lyrical poem, a way of marking an occasion with a song. Whether you choose an irregular ode with no set pattern or rhyme, or the ten-line, three-to-five stanza famed by Homer himself, we hope you’ll join us in singing in the season of leaf-fall and pie, and sharing on November 26th in a blog post and/or on social media with the tag #PoetryPals.
That’s all this time around. Stay safe and well!