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Hello, my fellow poets! Melissa here from Mom With a Blog, bringing you today’s poetry prompt. In the Northern Hemisphere, spring is right around the corner. The sounds of birdsong are getting louder, the days are slowly getting longer, soon the first blooms of spring will arrive.

Each year we cycle through the seasons, we may closely observe the delicate changes, from beginning to end and beginning again. As a plant lover, I find it especially exciting to plant something and see it grow from a seed. The process is a joy to watch.

“How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed 
On through the watching for that early birth 
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, 
The sturdy seedling with arched body comes 
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.”

from “Putting in the Seed” by Robert Frost

See also “The Seedling” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

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Have you ever had the pleasure of seeing a caterpillar hatch, grow, cocoon itself, and reemerge as a beautiful butterfly? Seeing spiders hatch out of an egg (in my opinion) is not so fun!

Under this loop of honeysuckle,
A creeping, coloured caterpillar,
I gnaw the fresh green hawthorn spray,
I nibble it leaf by leaf away.

from “The Caterpillar” by Robert Graves
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Without further ado, today we write about cycles of transformation. Anything will do, but your poem needs to have a beginning, middle, and end. Here are some ideas to get you started, but feel free to think up your own. Get creative!

  • caterpillar to butterfly
  • tadpole to frog
  • life cycle of a jellyfish
  • life cycle of a coral reef
  • life cycle of a car battery
  • life cycle of a star
  • your favorite sweatshirt

You get the idea. Please refer to the poems (above) by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Robert Graves. I’d like you to try incorporating at least a few lines of personification, in first person. Imagine you are whatever you’re writing about. Give it a voice and take us through its existence from conception to …

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