Random Acts

photos by PSC / 2012

RANDOM   ACTS

random act of pansies,

their sweet, silly faces

popped in colorful pots,

smiling on the front porch

chance proffer of poems

tacked up on phone poles,

taped inside storm doors,

tucked beneath door mats

stray lavish of pleasantries

greetings, drive-by smiles,

a car horn toot, friendly wave,

song, salute or tip of the hat

gifts bestowed by some unknown

gardener, poet, artist, stranger,

intending only kindness, needing

neither reward nor recognition

unable to return the favor; no way

to pay back the benefactor;  only

two things you can do:

pass it by, or pass it on

PSC/Nov 2011 

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NOTE:  APRIL is National Poetry Month in U.S. and Canada.   

• I will be participating in Robert Lee Brewer's Poetic Asides Poem-A-Day (PAD) Challenge -- which requires poets to create a poem in response to a different prompt each day.  If I can keep up, I'll post some of them here.  
• I also plan to practice some RANDOM ACTS OF POETRY locally during the month of APRIL.  I intend to “plant” some poems around town: at the grocery store, the library, the local park – wherever I go -- in the hopes that people will enjoy them and pass them on.  
• Feel free to join in the fun!  If you’ve got some of your own poems, you’d like to share, I’ll be only too happy to post them about my hometown for you! 

 And, as Robert Lee Brewer says, "HAPPY POEMING"!

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