April is National Poetry Month. Every year, my dear friend, and Poet Extraordinaire, Mary Lee Hahn, chooses a theme and writes a poem every day. She blogs and posts at two different places- YEAR OF READING and her fabulous new poetry blog, POETREPOSITORY.
This year's theme is PO-EMotions. Mary Lee promises, "I will write a poem a day that either evokes an emotion, or uses an emotion word in the title or body of the poem. Her list of emotions is here.
Today's emotion is pride.
"Pride"
it's such
a delicate balance
that constant teetering
taking pride in one's work
and being prideful
being someone's pride and joy
and being an approval monger
being proud as a peacock
and the pride that goes before a fall
bursting with pride
and having to swallow your pride
I wish the scales
didn't tip
quite so often.
(C) Carol Wilcox, 2015
Your poem engages the reader with its clever word weaving and paring with the scales of justice, Carol.
ReplyDeleteCarol, your poem is cleverly constructed. Great word weaving paired with the scales of justice.
ReplyDeleteI struggled with the positive and negatives of pride, too! Your scales are perfect.
ReplyDeleteWhy, indeed do te scales tip too often? your poem cleverly captures a universal struggle.
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