Ooops! Sorry. Forgot to post this morning.
Here is the poem for Saturday, April 17. To celebrate National Poetry Month, I am posting a short poem, a question and prompt every other day during the month. Mostly they will be poems by my daily companions, the ancient Japanese and Chinese poets. I will do the prompt myself, either in prose or poetry, and invite you to join.

I give permission
For this slow spring rain to soak
The violet beds.
- Richard Wright

Do you like this poem? Why or why not? How does it make you feel?
Prompt: Copy Wright’s first line—I give permission—and see where it leads you

I give permission
for the winter snowstorm
to bury all the scars
on these streets and frame
a façade of beauty.
--Old Monk