Youth Poet Award Finalist: “Acrylic Snippets of A Future” by Megumi Jindo
Acrylic Snippets of A Future
by Megumi Jindo
A vision
A hand
A canvas
& some paint
The little ladybugs
crawling :
A Leaf : A Splatter : Red : Rose-sweated cheeks
from an afternoon park run,
walking on the way home : Hands
petting over the bug’s back curve
The sun
when it melts
into the ice cream cones,
the faucets,
the chalked concretes : Sheathe : Orange : A child’s
tongue snakes out
catching water droplets from a sky : A forever
Breeze : Swipe Downwards : Yellow : Like the last light
cupped into delicately tiny hands : Fairies
Grass as it rustles : Laughs
with the innocents : Splash : Green : A prayer
for the flowers : An offering
from the young ones : To be glad is good
Peacocks and Neverland : A Land
of Stories and Blue Morphos : Yes, Blue :
A blink of a smear of sapphire : Instant :
Roasted marshmallows and camp bunks : A pale arm stretching
out to the Earth : Reaching
Periwinkle petals and Lavender incense scatterings : Swipe Sideways: Purple : Pebbles
quake with hope : Hopscotching
down the neighborhood road : Almost there : Almost
Cotton candies
Gummies
Swirl lollipops
Bubblegum : Barbie dolls and Fastened ribbons :
Dash Pink :
Watching : Two siblings sitting on the front porch at night :
Wishing
on the fireflies glowing : They were once stars : Us
& the paints begin to merge
And slide down the canvas
Accumulating
Gathering
Down
Down : Together