Poetry Friday: Happy Lunar New Year!
Happy Lunar New Year! Early on, when I learned what the animal is for this year, I misread Horse for Hose, and Year of the Fire Hose seemed somehow quite appropriate. Made me giggle. Still does. Thanks you, Jone, for organizing the New Year postcard exchange again! I had intended to carve, print, and hand-color…
Poetry Friday: Like Stitching
Molly gave the Inklings our challenge this month: I am stealing a prompt from Audrey Gidman’s advent prompts. Prompt #24 to be precise: Write a poem after Wendell Berry’s “Like Snow”— word for word. Choose a subject: rain, a butterfly, granite, the ocean, anything. Berry’s poem is three lines long. Break down each line. In…
Poetry Friday: A Trio of Tricubes
. The Poetry Sisters challenge for this month was composing tricubes — poems with three stanzas, three lines in each stanza, and three syllables in each line. At our pep talk/work session last Sunday, we wondered collectively if we would post a single tricube, or if it made sense for them to come in groups…
Poetry Friday: That July
Here’s another poem from the MoSt challenge. (Last week’s was, too.) This one was in response to challenge #14: Use orange, momentous, bucket, sweetheart, sweat, and longing. Mercurial was the bonus word. It was fun to write a poem that was entirely fictional! Tabatha has this week’s Poetry Friday roundup at The Opposite of Indifference,…
Poetry Friday: A Skill From My Unofficial Resume
Jan has this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup — the MLK edition — at bookseedstudio.
Poetry Friday: Murder
An award-winning poet was murdered this week. Renee Good was, of course, a multitude of other beings as well. We all are. But in 2020, she won one of Old Dominion’s most prestigious accolades, the American Academy of American Poets Prize. Rajiv Mohabir was serving as a judge for the contest in 202o and selected…
OLW/Intention for 2026
This year, I tried a new-to-me way to let the Universe help me choose my OLW/Intention for 2026. About a week ago, I wrote down 13 Wishes for Me in 2026. Next, I wrote each of the 13 on its own small slip of paper that I then folded up and placed in a small…
Poetry Friday: This is January
. Catherine gave the Inklings our January challenge: Write a poem that begins “This is January” or “January.” (Inspired by my December post here.) Wishing you as many deep breaths as it takes to get through 2026 with calmness, grace, joy, and love. Catherine has this week’s Poetry Friday roundup at Reading to the Core.…
Poetry Friday: Light, Hope, and Peace
This month, the Poetry Sisters are in conversation with the theme of light, hope, and peace. No form requirements, no length rules. When we chatted last Sunday, Sara mentioned that she might write a limerick. Not necessarily poetry on the theme of light, but definitely light poetry (heh heh). I snagged her idea and combined…
Poetry Friday: The Ones That Resonate
I know that many of the Poetry Friday regulars get the same array of daily poetry newsletters and so this poem landed in your inbox too. But it has stuck with me and compelled me to read it over and over again. It is a love letter to terror. It elaborates on all the wonders…
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A(nother) Year of Reading 