Abbie Taylor, one of my fellow bloggers at Writing Wanglers & Warriors, shared with the WW&W readers a poem she wrote for a thirteen-year-old girl. It might not have made me smile when I was thirteen, but now it does, so I’m sharing it with you.
Writing Wranglers and Warriors
I just received word from Wilda Morris that one of my poems is a March winner in her monthly poetry challenge on her blog. Last month’s challenge was to write a lullaby poem so I wrote one for my niece Isabella who is ten years old. You can read it plus other winning poems here.
Isabella’s not the only niece for whom I wrote a poem. Anna isn’t technically my niece, but she’ll be my step-niece in July when her mother marries my brother. After visiting them in Florida last Christmas, I was inspired to write the following poem which will appear in my new chapbook, That’s Life: New and Selected Poems, to be published by Finishing Line Press.
THAT’S LIFE
For Anna
Oh you of thirteen years,
when told you can’t go to the mall
or sleep over with a friend,
please understand that’s the…
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M. K. Waller 
simple, poignant, spot on! 🙂
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She got it right, didn’t she? This poem should be included in all junior high literature textbooks.
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Thank you, Kathy, for re-blogging this.
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You’re welcome, Abbie. It was just too good not to share.
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