April Poetry Month

This week’s featured poem from a Kansas writer comes from professional musician and poet Cheryl Seely Savage.

Savage is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree at Kansas State University. She is the mother of eight and lives with her family in the Flint Hills.

“I love what words and music can do for our souls—for social change, for connecting us to something bigger and more beautiful than we’ve assumed is attainable,” Savage wrote.

She is the author of four poetry collections: Give Me a Fragment, Carve a Place for Me, We Have Time, and Shadowing. Her work has appeared in Inscape, Kansas! Magazine, Exponent II, and Manhattan Neighbors Magazine.

Learn more about her work at cherylseelysavage.com.

What I Love

By Cheryl Seely Savage

oranges (mandarin), sweaters (green)

aspens (on mountains), justice (seen)

lilacs (purple), lipstick (red)

tacos (street), mercy (spread)

books (paperback), jeans (blue)

music (piano), history (true)

travel (everywhere), enthusiasm (zeal)

shoes (hiking), equity (real)

flowers (wild), trees (so tall)

love (mankind), peace (for all)