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Hello, all! Welcome to Tuesday Poetics. I am your host, Melissa, from Mom With a Blog. I will be serving up drinks and snacks, along with today’s poetic prompt.

pivotal (adj.): of crucial importance in relation to the development or success of something else.

fixed on or as if on a pivot.

Here are some poems about pivotal moments.

In “The Peace of Wild Things,” Wendell Berry details the worries that sometimes flood our minds and more importantly, how he finds respite.

Here, Assotto Saint makes record of the moments before “marching out into the dark hell”…

Audre’s Apples
by Assotto Saint

For audre lorde

as i swallow
the last morsel of a little green apple
blessed with myrrhed prayers & libations on an african altar

in a gothic cathedral
where with banners from all corners of our country
freed from the prejudice of a dozen years’ politics of greed

thousands gather on king’s day
to ground sorrow at a sister’s recent passing
(lorde we testify)
drum up her spirit along a cascading rainbow
to the orishas’ paradise

the juice snakes sweetly down my throat & circles my veins
it loosens my tingling toes stiffened
by neuropathy

armed only with a white candle that flares its last flames
i march out into the dark hell of
our big apple

Dorothy Parker pens us this poem about two diverging paths and the one she chose.

For today’s prompt, I’d like us to write poems about pivotal moments in our lives, where the pivot took us, and the feelings evoked by the development and how we managed all of it. Feel free to use any or all of the poems shown here for inspiration.

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  • Write a poem in response to the prompt.
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  • Have a wonderful time!🎉

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