Poetry Friday: Celebrating Twilight
This is a double-duty poem. First, it celebrates the Book Birthday of Marcie Flinchum Atkins’ new release, WHEN TWILIGHT COMES. Congratulations, Marcie! Second, it’s a Poetry Sister challenge poem. This month we tried our hands at Ovillejos. According to Writer’s Digest, “The ovillejo is an old Spanish form popularized by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). This 10-line poem…
Poetry Friday: The News in Poetry
. I’ve found my way back into a regular poetry writing routine and simultaneously I might have found my NPM project. As I read the NYT or other assorted news sources, I borrow bits and pieces and write a tricube. I’ve also been playing with haiku-comics. There’s room during NPM for both, right? Tanita has…
Poetry Friday: Yesterday
I’m in a bit of a writing slump, so thank goodness for Audrey Gidman’s Poetry Prompt Calendars! Here is the prompt for 3/11, which was the ninth anniversary of our mom’s death. Today, 3/12, is the 32-year anniversary of our dad’s death. Write two short, separate, unrelated poems, 4-5 lines each. One describing a body…
Poetry Friday: Becoming
Ever since Sara Teasdale’s poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” was the Poem of the Day this past week on Poets.org, I’ve been going back to it over and over again, working to memorize it. Sara T. and I go way back. My fourth graders and I memorized “Barter” my first year of teaching. I…
Poetry Friday: After Arthur Sze
Without actually meaning to, the Poetry Sisters have done great service to the Poetry Friday community by shining a spotlight on our current Poet Laureate, Arthur Sze. Were you, like us, not very (or at all) familiar with Sze’s poetry? We were delighted to dive in and discover his distinctive style of close focus on…
Poetry Friday: The Embroidery
I know many of you get the same daily poems I do, and maybe like me, you don’t always have time to read them all. Here’s one I want to make sure you didn’t miss. Lessons At the Legendary Institute for Yarn Spinning by Rigoberto González. The rest of the poem is here. Now, this…
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,…
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