Poetry Friday: "A New Poet"

This month's challenge to and for the Poetry Peeps was to write  "____ is A Word Poems" (a wordplay exercise created by poet Nikki Grimes and shared here by Michelle Barnes.) 

I didn't have time to rise to the challenge, but I'm sharing a poem about meeting new poets, which is one of the things I love about Poetry Friday.

Denise Krebs at Dare to Care is hosting the Poetry Friday round-up this week, and she's daring to care about the state of our country and some rapidly vanishing liberties. Thank you, Denise. 

A New Poet 

by Linda Pastan 

Finding a new poet
is like finding a new wildflower
out in the woods. You don't see

its name in the flower books, and
nobody you tell believes
in its odd color or the way

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(Read the rest here, at Library of Congress/Poetry 180.) 

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Photo thanks to Hazi54, Pixabay