This is my first  Duet composed via email with the lovely blogger and Friend Easter Ellen. Duets are a challenge to bring the individual poetic form and thoughts of each poet together and when it works, it can collide  seamlessly. As writers we work solo, but to welcome another into our mind and collaborate,  can be, as with my time with Easter, wonderful…inspiring. Alternating stanzas, the following poem is our result:

We both know sadness, tribulations few
But rejoice in the finding
Of friendship anew
We’ve found ourselves through
Each other’s hearts,
Brought together in spirit
Though oceans apart

Wings of love that disintegrate
Both that of time and land
Trials of life, bridging pain,
That, we will both withstand

Tempestuous weather, our long-known friend
Despite the elements, our hearts to lend
To surge over mountains, cast in our path
Swim through the waters of pain of our past
Rejoice in the day, the day that is new
Rejoice in the memories of what we’ve soared through

Discovered that we have kindred souls
Of paralleled lives; as our stories unfold
Thankful, so thankful, though pains had its day
A sisterhood found, beyond logic of way

As the saying goes
“Birds flock together”
This is the Friendship, of Easter and Heather