Shine
Heidi challenged the Inklings to try a composing method that sometimes works magic for her: “Close your eyes and type a poem. Keep going until you’re done. There will always be little typos to deal with afterwards, but something about not watching what’s coming out (and immediately proofing/editing/revising/critiquing/arranging it) is extremely freeing. It’s not really…
Poetry Friday: Art
. The photo’s not mine, but the experience in the poem is. I was more than a bit intimidated by the Poetry Sisters’ challenge to write a Terzanelle this month, but I listed the rhyme/repetition scheme down the side of a page in my notebook, held in my mind the memory of the swifts circling…
Poetry Friday: Cottonwood Dance
Cottonwood Dance (a tricube) even whenother treesstand stock still cottonwood’sleaves shimmerand glimmer as they danceto silentbreeze-music (c)Mary Lee Hahn, draft One perfectly still evening last summer, as I stood in our back yard, I happened to look down the easement and notice the cottonwood that sends her wads of floating seeds our way every spring.…
Poetry Friday: Turtles
One of my all-time favorite poems is “Turtle,” by Kay Ryan. Every time I read it, I am gobsmacked by the language, the metaphors, the internal rhyme, the enjambment. It just begs to be read aloud. Go ahead. I’ll wait while you do. The whole poem can be found at The Poetry Foundation. Turtleby Kay…
Poetry Friday: Harvest
I wrote this at Jone’s Poetry Pop-Up last week. Gratitudes to Jone for the opportunity to write in community, and for the great prompt — simply…Harvest. Jama has this week’s Poetry Friday roundup at Jama’s Alphabet Soup.
Poetry Friday: Nothing Gold
The Inklings prompt for this month came from Linda. “This prompt comes from an Instagram post of the redroompoetry account: “Find a poem you like, or one you don’t like. Write the first 6 lines of the poem. Under each line write your own response. Delete the original lines, use what you have as a…
Poetry Friday: Who’s to Blame?
Me. I’m to blame. I had the challenge for the Poetry Sisters this month. I found it in THE CREATIVITY PROJECT, edited by Colby Sharp. Each of the forty-four contributors to the book submitted two prompts. Colby doled out the prompts, each person receiving two from which they could choose one to use “to inspire…
Poetry Friday: If…Then
. Today’s poem is pure play! I’m reading Ada Limón’s new collection, STARTLEMENT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and I was taken by the first line of the poem “Prologue: This Big Fake World.” I used it as my first line and went from there. When the lines started to rhyme, I leaned into it and…
Poetry Friday: An Unpopular Opinion
Since we are not your typical “Go Bucks!” people, we will be enjoying a quiet city tomorrow evening while everyone else is glued to their TV sets for OSU vs. TX. It will be perfect for reading through the Poetry Friday Roundup, which Linda is hosting at TeacherDance.
Poetry Friday: A Kenning
. Margaret challenged the Inklings this month to write a kenning poem — a poem in which “A figurative compound word that takes the place of an ordinary noun.” I started my brainstorm list of compound words while sitting in a Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams shop for an Ice Cream Social fundraiser for Casting for…
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