hello friends!
Today, I’m going to be collaborating with Maggie from maggie’s doodles for a summer-inspired poem/illustrations post! Maggie is a tremendously creative blogger and artist who writes on a wide variety of topics, many of her posts also feature her classic doodles!
For today’s collaboration, we each decided to send the other summer-inspired illustrations. And then I wrote poems inspired by her illustrations (read her post here) and she wrote poems for the illustrations I sent, which you can read below!
Gathering flowers
Down by the sea,
I listen and see
What they whisper to me.
They share with me stories
Of long, long ago,
Of places and people
I’ve never known
Of night strolls and walks
Down on the beach,
A place in time
I’ll never quite reach.
Down on the beach
With the sky up above,
The world feels free
As the wings of a dove.
I smile and bask
In the fading sun,
For my late evening
Has just begun.
Beneath the logs,
Forgotten and free,
A family of mushrooms wait for me.
I hold them close
And tell them slowly,
They are my friends
If they’ll ever know me.
Note: My first illustration here, the one with the girl holding flowers was inspired by the featured image Moksha @Happy Panda used in her post titled ‘Why Am I Like This?’ A huge thank you to her for creating such a beautiful featured image and for letting me use it as a reference! Check out her beautifully raw and authentic post here!
Drawing and writing on a summer theme were immensely fun – I’m so grateful to Maggie for collaborating with me on this and for designing this post’s lovely featured image!
Thoughtfully yours,
D
Check out Maggie’s post to see her lovely illustrations!
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