April is here and this means the challenge of writing a poem a day is upon us. It is also my mother’s birthday and she would have been 69 today. I miss her a great deal and never imagined we wouldn’t grow old together spending hours on the phone chatting long distance and maybe sharing holidays, but life is like that. She has been gone for 13 years and since then, in honor of her, I always try to complete the poem a day using either my own prompts or prompts from someone else. Each year I make them increasingly more difficult as an added challenge and this year is no different.
Last summer, a book arrived in my little library about Goddesses and Heroines, and I plucked it out. I wasn’t sure what I would use it for, but something said I should keep it. So it got moved around the house for the last six months and I decided that this years poem a day will be about Goddesses from around the world. Every culture has some and my hope is learn new cultural things while also writing poems. My hope is that you might also try to write some poems from these prompts if they move you. Prompt writing is not for everyone, but sometimes it takes the pressure of writing when you have a platform to jump from. I have not been writing much to be honest, so this will help give me a boost. The book was arranged alphabetically, so we will approach it in the same way. Some of the letters are doubled up to make it a month long project. I hope you enjoy. Feel free to add your poems in the comments. I would love to see what you come up with.
Ament: was an Egyptian goddess who lived in a tree at the edge of a desert and greeted the newly deceased with bread and water. If they took her gifts, it meant they were friends of the dead and were to never be among the living again.
Be kind to each other. Read books. Write poems. Make art. Create something with your beautiful talents. Support small press and local artists.
Aleathia
Aleathia Drehmer 