Wishing all who celebrate a Happy Cinco de Mayo and given it was May fourth yesterday, here is hoping May the force be with you all through the month of May and beyond! Today, I go exploring the ink trails of yesterdays – as in the days of April – and bring you a poem made up of lines revisited. And as always, some more stuff too for my scribblings..

Plus, May is National Walking Month, so it is definitely the right time to hit the familiar trails, and discover new trails as well.

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Poetic Sundays: Ink Trails of Yesterdays

The Collage Poem Full of Ink Trails

This poem is a collage poem, where each line is taken from a different poem. The lines are in the exact order of the poems I wrote during NaPoWriMo (from Day 0 to Day 30 to make this a 31 line poem). Each line links to the original poem. I added a few words (in brackets) to help the flow a bit (though it can be better).

In general, a collage poem could be made up of words, phrases, lines from anything at all that you see; lines from poems by other poets, quotes from books/articles, random words and phrases you see, anything at all. It can take the reader down various trails, so to speak!

Exploring Old Trails: My Attempt

Ink Trails of Yesterdays
The roses out back, the ones I look out (upon)
I don’t recall if I ever read them all.
Believe me (when I say that) this is not idle prattle,
(for) their stories (soon) spun together into an epic nebula (battle).
That memory of course ended elsewhere, (took a foray),
Well, it took each of them in a (whole) different way.
(But coming back to here and now); it’s the thought that counts after all, right true?
I wish you were here, I really do.
Anyways and finally!
You may be what they call basic, you see
(But I know better) (For you) See that we are all the same,
Juggling a jumble of juxtaposition-ed self-judgmental thoughts,
Through valleys deep and mountains high,
(Thoughts) barely audible, as if playing hide-and-seek.
revealing the hidden paths we’ve yet to tread.
Had I saved it? I wondered
A forgotten note on the refrigerator door.
(Found it!!!) And I am all of ten again,
Cutting across dust bunnies, I play.
An unbidden prompting for what I still have to do.
Singing “Puppy Love” to the world (singing away the blues)
As bumblebees dance and dandelions sway free,
From kitchen window, my eyes did see,
But here’s what I am (really) thinking about –
That silence was sure loud with a steady stare.
“What do I fear the most?” I ask myself (then and there),
(The fear-y thoughts faded when – ) – well, wisdom wallows in wonder, I heard.
I (instantly) snapped back from my reverie;
With pen strokes, I pour the words, phrases and more, on a blank page.
You have just one life to live, I read,
Each tear longing for the day’s end
~ Vidya Tiru @ LadyInReadWrites

Recently

On My Blog & at Home

My recent posts since and including my last Sunday Scribblings.

• From One Anniversary to the Next Through Earth and Water
• Zoom into the Zippy World of Zealous Zillennials and Zhar-ptistas
• You Know YOLO So You Don’t Have to be Everything
• Sunday Scribblings #187: Musings Here and Thoughts There

Upcoming

On My Blog & Homefront

Done with April’s month long challenges!!! May May bring with it more musings and mysteries and myriad other stuff too, including of course exploration of walking and hiking trails too.

This Week’s Celebrations

Literary Celebrations (close-to-it also!)

• Literary birthdays this week of May include: Orson Welles on the 6th; Angela Carter, Robert Browning, Peter Carey, Deborah Wiles, and Rabindranath Tagore on the 7th; Edward Gibbon on the 8th; Alan Bennett, Charles Simić, J. M. Barrie, Joy Harjo, and Richard Adams on May 9th; Barbara Taylor Bradford and Christopher Paul Curtis on the 10th; Richard P. Feynman and Irving Berlin on May 11th; Edward Lear and George Carlin on the 12th
• May 7th is Poem on Your Pillow Day (observed annually on the first Tuesday in May)
• It is Family Reading Week and May 9th (the Thursday of this week) happens to be
  Make a Book Day.
• The 11th is O. Henry Pun-off Day
• May 12th is National Limerick Day
• May is Better Speech and Language Month and National Get Caught Reading Month

Foodie Celebrations

• May 6th is National Beverage Day and National Crepe Suzette Day as well as International No Diet Day
• The 7th celebrates a specific beverage with National Cosmopolitan Day, and also what you make as your own with National Homebrew Day
• It is National Coconut Cream Pie Day as well as Give Someone a Cupcake Day on the 8th of May
• May 9th is National Butterscotch Brownie Day and National Moscato Day
• The 11th is National Eat What You Want Day
• National Nutty Fudge Day is on the 12th!

Other Celebrations

• The 6th is National Nurses Day
• It is Foster Care Day on the 7th of May
• May 8th is Reward Yourself Day and No Socks Day.
• The 9th of May celebrates one of the greatest mysteries of our world; it is National Lost Sock Memorial Day as well as National Sleepover Day
• May 10th is National Clean Up Your Room Day, One Day Without Shoes, Trust Your Intuition Day, as well as National Public Gardens Day
• The 11th celebrates National Twilight Zone Day, World Belly Dance Day, as well as World Migratory Bird Day (celebrated on the second Saturday in May and again on the second Saturday in October)
• May 12th is International Nurses Day and of course, Mother’s Day!

Related Reads and More

• Read Epic Animal Journeys about migrations
• Check out The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit’s Amazing Migration. My review of this picture book is here.
• This Poems On Pillows pillow will make a great gift for Mother’s Day (plus, you can say that there is actually a poems on pillows day!

Some of the Hiking trails and trips and etcs I mentioned before on my blog

• Hiking Trails, Tips, Memes
• Hiking and Treasure Hunts
• Five Literary Ways to Explore the Literally Great Outdoors
• Picchetti Winery – Bay Area, CA
• Let’s Go Where the Hummingbirds Rest
• Check out Annabel Street’s 52 Ways to Walk book. My thoughts on the book are here along with other spring-y books.

Wrapping Up My Trails of Sunday Scribblings

Dear reader, will you attempt a collage poem of your own? What about exploring walking trails? Share your favorite hiking or walking trail, whether in your local area or anywhere else.

Linking this to the Sunday Post over at the Caffeinated Reviewer and the Sunday Salon.