Reboot, Rewind, Recycle, Rebirth - Poems in April

Reboot, rewind, retool, recycle, rebirth.

And take a deep breath.  (If you have been doing a poem a day in April, take several! )

I split my time between City and mountains and am very conscious of the movement of the seasons, in part because I get to see them twice--spring in city parks and then (some weeks later) in the country. Seeing rewinds of spring (and autumn too) makes me acutely aware of the recharging of the landscape in those times. (Last weekend--rainy-- the landscape upstate changed from brown to emerald in the course of a few hours.) 

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The prompt is to write about those moments of re-charging, rebooting, re-winding, re-birthing.  It is meant to be as general as possible --meaning, please don’t write about spring or fall  (unless you actually want to.) 

There are plenty of other moments when rebooting or rebirthing may happen (a deep breath, a swallowed word, a spoken word, maybe even just a bathroom break! )  

These may be very long moments, involving several years of swallowed or spoken words (and innumerable bathroom breaks) or a second's epiphany. 

In writing your poem, please try to be with the moment or experience that you write of, and not to write of generalities. (Note, this prompt is not to write about bathroom breaks unless those are especially meaningful to you! But any moment of breaking and remaking.) 

If you can’t think of anything, take an old poem and retool it!

For fun--but not as a particular part of the prompt, I set forth here three drawings on paper (ink and watercolor). All of these were done on top of old pen and ink drawings, in part as a way of recycling paper.  If you do use one, please reference that they are the work of Karin Gustafson.) 

Have a good day, and many congratulations to those of you who have been doing the poem a day in April--you are almost done!