Poetry Friday: Digging…or Cutting
Catherine offered the Inklings this month’s challenge, choosing from the June challenges of Audrey Gidman: Read “Digging” by Seamus Heaney. Think about something that has been handed down to you—from a parent, a grandparent, an elder in your life—that feels alive in you now. Think of how it is the same and think of how…
Poetry Friday: Summer Triptych
. Summer Triptych – For the Teachers I. Freedom is the classroom door closed and locked.Shelves are covered with craft paper,desk drawers are perhaps organizedor else abandoned in clutter.It can allwait. II. A black swallowtail dipsto the dilltime shiftsfrom calendar and clockto caterpillar and bloom. III. Chicory appearsalong roadsides and railroads:blue brackets that begin and endthis…
Poetry Friday: June Garden
I’ve been savoring the micro-seasons of our garden and our climate zone. It’s the season of bottle-brush buckeyes, fireflies, and cone flowers. In our garden, the rattlesnake master is going to bloom for the first time, and both the taller-than-me bergamot and the royal catchfly are filled with buds, too. Bring on the next season…
Poetry Friday: Ode to My Garden
I had the Inklings challenge this month: “Use a recent comment on one of your posts as a line in a poem.” Jan (Bookseedstudio) left the first two lines of this poem in the comments on my May 26 post. Her comments often sound like poems or lines from poems, so she made my job…
The Poetry Friday Roundup is HERE!
I’ve moved the picnic table into the shade of the weeping birch in the back yard of my childhood home, and the Poetry Sisters are arriving with yummy offerings for today’s pot luck. Nope. While I DID grow up on the arid high plains of eastern Colorado, that’s WAY too dry. Let’s try again. Right…
Poetry Friday Roundup Call
It’s that time again. Six-ish months have passed since last we queued up to host the Poetry Friday roundups. What is the Poetry Friday roundup? A gathering of links to posts featuring original or shared poems, or reviews of poetry books. A carnival of poetry posts. Here is an explanation that Rene LaTulippe shared on…
Poetry Friday: Self Portrait
The prompt on Audrey Gidman’s May Poetry Prompt Calendar for May 20 was “Write a self-portrait poem.” I didn’t get to that one, but May 21 was “Now that you’ve practiced, write another self-portrait poem. Give this one a very long title.” And since one of the items on my to-do list for today was…
Poetry Friday: A Mish-Mash
Shake My Brain Over the Page and This is What Sprinkles Out: A Cento exploring timeimagination makes roomembroidery as play / craft is politicalpriceless and worthless, simultaneously women’s work –this long threadwith her own hands –let’s move the needle (c) Drafty McDraft, 2026 The Sources: Exploring Time”…imagination makes room…”Embroidery as Play / craft is politicalpriceless…
Poetry Friday: A Landmark Birthday
Today is Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday. If you haven’t watched the new PBS documentary Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure, put that at the top of your TBW list! Here is David Attenborough’s thank you card to the world for all of kerfluffle over his kerluffle-worthy birthday. And here is Brian Bilston’s poem for…
Poetry Friday: MAY!
Happy May Day! Today is an Inklings challenge day, and Heidi challenged us to “Celebrate May by writing a poem that Maykes use of the verbs may, might, could, can, ought.” It felt SO good to use more words, syllables, and lines! Here’s how the rest of the Inklings met this month’s challenge: Catherine @Reading…
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A(nother) Year of Reading 