I signed up in the hopes that my ability to write poetry has improved somewhat since last year.

Feels like the thing to do in June every year! I enjoy this group and this challenge.

Because it is June. Even when I fail at daily poems, I always write something I would not have. And to quote Sharon Olds, “I think, to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.”

Doing this every June keeps me observant of the poems that happen each and everyday and brings forth the poems that have been bubbling about all year long.

I love being a verse in our grand poetic tradition.