open sky :: SAMVAAD | 20th August
- sanjuktaa
- Aug 20, 2023
- 1 min read
hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Kashiana Singh
before
they were my daughters . . .
wildflowers
---- Meredith Ackroyd
(Frogpond, Volume 44:3, in Autumn 2021,Winner of Touchstone Award for Individual Poems 2021)
Such a beautiful jux...daughters and wildflowers.
I have always been fascinated by the wild things of the world, be it wildflowers, wild berries, wild animals or the vast wilderness out there. So no wonder this poem grabbed my attention from the very first time I read it. A mysterious and joyous poem but what’s most interesting about it is the connection between the first two lines and the L3. A very uncommon juxt. That never stopped to fascinate me and I went back to it again and again. Till Meredith Ackroyd came to my rescue...
Here is the story in the poet's own words.
As a poet who is writing while also raising children, many of my poems are about the experience of mothering. Oftentimes, thes…
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