Apr 7
1 min read
Daily News
I laugh to keep from crying.
Daily
news:
war,
death.
Daily…
sunflower
seed
wishes.
Daily,
I laugh to keep from crying.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Written in response to the Cuyahoga County Public Library’s Poem-A-Day Read+Write Challenge for #NationalPoetryMonth, April 6th Prompt: Try on “The Skinny,” an 11-line poem (see link for details).
For those who don’t know, the sunflower is the official flower of Ukraine, and a woman made international headlines after yelling at a Russian soldier to get out of her country, saying: “Take these seeds and put them in your pockets, so at least sunflowers will grow when you all lie down here.” She then followed the soldiers around with seed packets.
