Here we are at the last Poetry Friday of National Poetry Month. I am in awe of everyone who shared a new poem daily. Congratulations! I have a few letters left to round out my alphabet of hope, which I’ll keep working on these into May. Why should April get all the fun?
T is for Hope
Why?
Because…
Taproots
sink
deep
into
the Earth,
soaking
up water,
anchoring
dandelions,
milkweeds,
and more.
Sustaining
life.
Draft, © Catherine Flynn, 2023
John White, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Previous NPM Posts:
Day 1: H is for…
Day 2: A is for Hope
Day 3: B is for Hope
Day 4: C is for Hope
Day 5: D is for Hope
Day 6: E is for Hope
Day 7: F is for Hope
Day 8: G is for Hope
Day 9: Hope is
Day 10: I is for Hope
Day 11: J is for Hope
Day 12: Hope is…
Day 13: L is for Hope
Day 14: M is for Hope
Day 15: N is for Hope
Day 16: More Poems of Hope
Day 17: Q is for Hope
Day 18: R is for Hope
Day 19: Hope is… Silvopastures
Reading to the Core 
Oh, Catherine, a taproot is a symbol of hope. Even your poem is shaped like a taproot going down to “sustain life”
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“All of us together” is what your poem meant to me, Catherine. And thanks for “Wysauke” – new to me. My students studied and created botanical illustrations, not easy but a fun and illuminating project. I love the one you shared, too.
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How wonderful! Taproot is a delicious, thirst-quenching word. This poem is simple in words but satisfying in making me think about all that’s going on in the earth beneath me now.
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I love this! (Our milkweed has just started to come up. We grow it for the butterflies.)
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Love this metaphor, Catherine!
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The dogleg in that milkweed root made me laugh. So THAT’S why I can never pull up the “extra” milkweed all the way to the tip of the root (and thus it comes back forever)! I wonder if they all do that?
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