Each month this blog will feature a word of the month to stimulate a poem. Anyone who wishes to share a poem is invited to participate. The point is to enjoy the challenge of writing a poem inspired by a single word. It doesn’t matter if this is your first poem or five hundredth. It’s all done for the fun and exercise of writing.
Cutoff for posting the current Word of the Month poem is the last day of the month.
On the first day of each month, a new word will be posted to challenge your imagination for that month.
Please post your poems on this page, so everyone can find the poems easily.
Thank you and have fun!
David
PS: The word for May is TOUCH .
Children's Author David L. Harrison's Blog 
Anger, sadness, rage
Feelings that consume the soul
Gentle touch can heal
Here from Jane Yolen:
That Last Touch, by Jane Yolen
That last touch between us,
Your hand in mine,
stiffening, ,hardening, .
the music ending.
the long silence beginning,
your five final breaths,
all that you had left,
except for that touch,
which all these years later,
I can still feel some mornings,
before I am quite awake, not quite alive.
myself,
That touch.
Beautiful comparison way to convey touch of love poetically!
How Do I Touch you
Know not of age
like desires watching beauties
if they give pleasure experience my gaze
of your smooth skin cheeks under watchful eyes
then tempted glimpses humble glances
will unmask feelings obvious why nature says
woman draws attention of man
as only human beauty can
Man tempts notice engaging embraces till
shadows moving on nearest wall
are edged clear foggy outlines of togetherness
but window light gives wall bodies meaningful motions
of loves embrace held still devotions
late night when candle low burns
my want turns to wishful thinking what will
cause me more to caress your smooth skin
William Joe Pyles