Friday, March 27, 2020

SOL 27/31 and Poetry Friday: "Where Grass is Pressed" by Helen Frost

Returning for year nine of writing daily in March with my Slice of Life writer friends! Check out Two Writing Teachers for more slices of life occurring every day in March.


  Tabatha Yeats is hosting this week's roundup of poetic goodness.
Thanks, Tabatha, for hosting and sharing your poem, "Acceptance."
I especially love these words from the poem.
" . . . it is strands of light
  seeping through a drizzly haze,  "

Welcome to Poetry Friday and a favorite poem by Helen Frost that I found on her blog. I've shared it frequently with friends facing difficult times and it seems especially appropriate for our current time. 


I would love to mention another resource you might explore. Georgia Heard is posting poems from her book, This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort, on her Instagram account. Follow her on Instagram to read the poems of comfort she's sharing. Click on the title of her book to read the review I wrote for Poetry Friday on 9-11-15. And if you'll permit a moment of unabashed fangirling, we were privileged to have Georgia Heard join our table at All Write 2015. I wrote about that in a Poetry Friday post too.

20 comments:

  1. This is beautiful and full of hope. "And the road is longer than it should be, longer than you thought it would be..." Indeed. I tried to write a poem of hope today, as well. Thank you for sharing this!

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  2. This is lovely, Ramona. I shall keep it close at hand. I, too, wrote a poem of hope for today's Slice/Poetry Friday roundup. It's about a tree that brings me hope.

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  3. Oh man, I need to keep a copy of that poem close by these days. I'm going to check out the other Poetry Friday posts today. Thank you for these words of inspiration, Ramona. Stay safe. Stay well.

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  4. I, too, will keep a copy of this to look back upon. Reading before bedtime seems just right. Thank you for sharing this slice of hope today!

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  5. ...nestling into sleep, into love is quite a lovely thought, isn't it? Thank you, Ramona! xo

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  6. This is beautiful and perfect for the times.

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  7. A good poem for today. Thank you for posting it. I had not read this one. I also will tuck it away to read again.

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  8. What a comfort. I'm looking...looking

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  9. Fangirl moments for sure. Thanks for sharing your links and the poem that puts the emphasis on hope. When these NY/Long Island roads are longer that I think they should be, I will be guided by faith to bring smiles to unreal situations, Ramona. Stay safe.

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  10. Love the poem you shared. Rest is recent, rest is possible again- such hopeful words in these times when worry intrudes into rest.

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  11. Love this poem, Ramona. Thanks for sharing it. I didn't participate in the March Slice of Life challenge this year, but I did write a poem about hope for Poetry Friday today.

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  12. Thank you for the poem and the recommendation to follow Georgia Heard.

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  13. When I walk to the park with a lake and much long grass is there, I do look for those places, Ramona, wondering what was there at night. This poem by Helen Frost is so beautiful, just a calming for today. And I agree, Georgia's book & her wonderful posting is really special lately. Stay healthy, wishing you all my best wishes!

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  14. Frost's poem is so beautiful - and timely - I have just reread it many times to let it keep washing over me, or, rather, to let myself slip into the comfort of it. Just followed Georgia on IG - thank you for this tip! I love her work and she is such a gracious person - she tweeted my global heart map. How grateful I am to have come here today, Ramona :)

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  15. Poems of hope are so necessary now. Did you see this collection: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/142028/poems-of-hope-and-resilience

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  16. This poem hits the spot, Ramona. Thank you! :)

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  17. Thank you for the Frost poem... glorious... and for the Georgia Heard connection. Georgia fan also.. She's posting comfort on FB too. Be well...

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  18. Year nine!! Hats off to you :-) I particularly like "Rest is recent, rest is possible again." Thanks, Ramona!

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  19. Thank you for sharing this beautiful poem--and the links to Georgia Heard. I love her book Poems of Comfort. And I'm quite envious you got to sit with here. I took a couple of online PD courses with her through Heinemann and had to catch my breath every time she responded to my writing.

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  20. I love Helen Frost and this new-to-me poem offers such comfort. Thank you so much for sharing it here today.

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