Challenge complete. As I wrote at the beginning of the month, I had no intention of completing or event starting this year’s poem-a-day challenge. But I’m sure glad that I did. I came into April with my poem tank empty. I hadn’t written one in months. I enter may with more than 30 new poems and many more drafts. Sometimes you get the challenge you need when you need it. The important thing is to keep trying, keep striving and keep moving. And that brings me to the last poem of the month: Write a moving poem. Here’s to April. Hello, May. Let’s keep moving.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. —Satchel Paige

MOVE

Yesterday is an anchor

Weighs me down.

Tomorrow’s a wind beneath

My broken wings.

But which way will it blow?

I have today.

I have to get up,

Get off this couch.

I have to get up

And move.

Yesterday is no return

Even if I have the receipt

Tomorrow may be out of stock

There’s no way to know

I have today.

I have to get up.

We have today.

We need to get up

Off this couch

And move.