2022 Progressive Poem, Day 12

Today I am hosting the 2022 Progressive Poem.  It's been at least ten years that the Progressive Poem has been a collaborative effort in the Poetry Kitlit World.  It's fun to see how the poem reveals itself throughout the month.  This year, the poem is almost a CENTO style as the contributors have been finding lines from favorite poems and books.

I went in search of lines in Chris Baron's The Magical Imperfect.  I love that book.  I found several lines (from two places in the book)that spoke to me:

The fog is lighter now,
and the moon is slicing
through the sky.
I whisper to it, tap on the trunk,
imagine it feeling my sound.

And I'm adapting to this:

The moon is slicing through the sky. We whisper to the tree, tap on the trunk,
imagine it feeling our sound. 

2022 Progessive Poem

Where they were going, there were no maps.
              Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today.                   
Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!
              We have to go back. I forgot something.
But it’s spring, and the world is puddle-wonderful, so we’ll whistle and dance and set off on our way.
              Come with me, and you’ll be in a land of pure imagination.
Wherever you go, take your hopes, pack your dreams, and never forget – it is on our journeys that discoveries are made.
                 And then it was time for singing.
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain, paint with all the colors of the wind, freewheeling through an endless diamond sky?
 Suddenly, they stopped and realized they weren’t the only ones singing.
       Listen, a chattering of monkeys! Let’s smell the dawn and taste the moonlight, we’ll watch it all spread out before us.
The moon is slicing through the sky. We whisper to the tree, tap on the trunk, imagine it feeling our sound. 

Lines 1 -12, poet and where they are from:

1.     Irene  (The Imaginaries)
2.     Donna (The Hobbit)
3.     Catherine F. (The Wind in The Willows)
4.     Mary Lee (Walk Two Moons)
5.     Buffy Silverman (a bit from e.e. cummings)
6.     Linda Mitchell (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
7.     Kim Johnson (from Maybe by Kobi Yamada)
8.     Rose Cappelli (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
9.     Carol Varsalona (Disney Songs)
10.     Linda Baie (The Other Way to Listen.)
11.     Janet Clare Fagal (line adaptation from Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman)
12.    Jone Rush MacCulloch (line adaptation from The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron)

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Now I place it in the the hands of  ​ Karin Fisher-Golton at Still in Awe.