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Poetry Friday, Week 24: Collaborating for Spark 51 with Linda Mitchell

6/16/2022

Created for me by ©Amber Fleek

Welcome from across the pond. I am currently in Ireland but planned this post in advance. I will most likely be on hiatus until July.
Michelle at Michelle Kogan is hosting us today. I love Michelle's work. And I am tempted to take an online class from her.

This week I am sharing the second of inspiration pieces that Linda Mitchell sent me. It is a poem, "Coda". It's fitting that next week we will move into summer and so this is our final "spring' Friday.

Coda
Noun MUSIC

the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure.

Now green, these trees are winter-wise
scarred by ice, snow and wind.

Scarred by ice, snow and wind
red bud waves fuchsia with survival pride.

Red bud bears notes from our sun
Written in invisible ink.

invisible ink revealed by rain
Wintertime is done let us turn toward spring

Spring reveals herself in rain soaked woods
singing to herself.

From woods to shore bluebells hum
a rising chorus to answer Spring

Spring responds – waits a beat for the trees
Now green, these trees are winter wise.

© 2022 Linda Mitchell
inspiration piece

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Buffy at Buffy Silverman is hosting Poetry Friday today. I was excited to see beautiful lady slipper s on her blog and notice of her new book this fall. How exciting.

I recently had the fun opportunity to participate in Spark 51. I asked Linda Mitchell to partner with me on the project. Since we both wanted to send each other an art inspiration piece and a poem inspiration piece, we ended up with four projects. LOL! Today I'm sharing my response to Linda's art inspiration piece. It provided me with the opportunity to delve into Amanda Gorman's Call Us What We Carry for a cento poem.

A cento, a poem created of lines and phrases from other previously written poems like a collage. Like a collage, perfect for the mixed media collage that Linda sent me.

Penning a Letter

Penning a letter to the world as a daughter of it
We are walking beside our ancestors

Every time we fall heart-first into the news,
Life is not what is promised

The heart chambered by grief
Life, a page, we are only legible when opened to another

We rebuild, reconcile, and recover
We cannot possess hope without practicing it

Reading children’s books, dancing alone to a DJ music
We shall only learn when we let this loss, like us sing on & on ~

Call us what we carry
If only we’re brave enough to be it

©jone rush macculloch, 2022

The lines are from Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, 2021:
1. “Ship’s Manifest
2. ”School’s Out”
3. “Fugue”
4. “Life”
5. “Lighthouse”
6. “Compass”
7. “The Hill We Climb”
8. “Every Day We are Learning”
9. “The Miracle of Morning”
10. “Surviving”
11. “Call Up”
12. “The Hill We Climb”

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