Today is the final day of the April poem-a-day challenge & I so enjoy participating with the poets on Maureen Thorson’s site: Napowrimo.net though we often call it Na/Glopowrimo as it is not only national, but global! What a joy to write and share poems with poets all over the world. It’s fast and furioius, but we can always return to the site and revisit some of the fantastic resources Maureen provides. I am not sure I was able to write with a “dispassionate tone” today, but I tried to stay somewhat faithful to the prompt as described below:
“And now, here’s this year’s final (optional) prompt. In his poem, “Angels,” Russell Edson speaks of these spiritual warrior-messenger-guardians as if they were a type of endangered animal. Brief as it is, the poem is disorienting in its use of flattened diction, odd similes, and elliptical statements. Today, try writing your own poem that discusses a real or mythical being or profession (demons, firefighters, demonic firefighters) with the same sort of musing yet dispassionate tone.” https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirty-12/
photo credit: David Matthew Lyons
Pegasus
If ever we needed you, Pegasus, it is now.
Come down from the sky, winged one.
Touch your hooves to the earth, kick
the dirt to bring springs of hope.
Pegasus, gift to the muses of
poetry,
music,
inspiration.
If ever we needed you, Pegasus, it is now.
To bring springs of hope.
All over the world.
©Jacquelyn Markham (4/30/2026)
Thank you to all the poets we participated in the poem-a-day challenge and to Maureen for her fun & inspiring prompts. What a joy to share words, ideas, and images with poets across the globe.
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