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Poetry Friday, Week 11: Spark 54

3/16/2023

©Graphic by Amber Fleek

Laura at Small Reads for Brighter Days is hosting Poetry. She is previewing her project for National Poetry Month. She's invited others to play along. It sounds fun and engaging.

Speaking of National Poetry Month, I will be sharing poem videos written by poetry friends. These poems were donated to my students at Texas Women's University for a midterm project. I am very excited to see these poems come to life.

Last month, I participated in another collaborative effort with Spark 54. This project is organized by the fabulous Amy Souza. She paired me with Bianca Schrader who shared the following poem:

Temples By Bianca Schrader
Inspiration piece
All things beautiful
All things sacred
All things worshiped, holy in quiet spaces.
Sun-dappled anything. Curls of steam out of a favorite cup. Piles of books, some to be read,
some just hopefuls.
Unﬁnished projects.
Cards from close friends.
All things ordinary. All things precious, placed with purpose.
All stories to tell.
Soft light, quiet mornings.
Late for work, out the door.
Company is coming, sweep the ﬂoor.
So that they may take their shoes oﬀ.
Make yourself at home in mine. I’ll make it comfortable.
I’ll try to let you in once you’ve entered!
This is my church. I’m the god worshiped here
and so are you.
we are the same, you just built your church a little diﬀerently.
All things beautiful.
we are the same, you just built your church a little diﬀerently.
All things beautiful.

This is my response to Bianca's poem. Mixed media.

To see my Inspiration piece, "Portals" and Bianca's response poem, "Windows", visit Spark.

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Tanita at {fiction, instead of lies} is hosting Poetry Friday this week. She writes of seeds, writing and transformation. Today, I had the opportunity to guest teach in a fifth grade. We read from Winter Bees by Joyce Sidman and then wrote our own "deeper thinking" poems about winter. The class and I talked about trying to create a turn at the end of the pome. One student did a good job with it. Can you spot it? The students said I read the poem with a witchy voice.