Paper Poetry’s April 2025 prompt

Flourishing Together with Poetry

Celebrating National Poetry Month

Image by Gábor Adonyi from Pixabay

and still
sunflowers flourish
in golden fields
riddled
with the shrapnel
of futility

and still
seed oil flows
to nourish
as does honey
anointed
with purity

and still…

Greetings to our Paper Poetry friends,

Here at Paper Poetry, we are always celebrating poetry and the poets who gift us their wordart. We know how vital poetry is as a creative expression of the human condition, and every facet of what it means to exist, dream and imagine.

While every day gives reason to celebrate poetry, there are special times in the year when those celebrations are taken to new heights.

These are the times for poetry to flourish and for we poets to show the world how passionate we are about our craft.

These times are upon us.

April is National Poetry Month, an annual event that was inaugurated by the Academy of…