THE BLOSSOMS AWAKE
The blossoms were closed.
The blossoms
are slowly blooming.
The blossoms
are happy
to see the world.
The blossoms fall
to run away
and build a home.
The blossoms
have children.
—from 2016 Rattle Young Poets Anthology
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Why do you like to write poetry?
Priya Bartlett: “I like writing poems because ideas are always swirling around in my mind and when my thoughts reach the pencil the swirling lands on the page!”