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Poetry Friday: Kayaking

9/22/2020

Thanks to Carol at Beyond LiteracyLink for hosting Poetry Friday this week.

Last week, I discovered kayaking. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. And it felt like I had been doing it a long time. By the time actual Friday arrives, I will be getting ready for my third time kayaking in about 10 days.

My notebook entry for August 29, 2020

I wrote a Shadorma, which is a 3-5-3-3-7-5 syllable Spanish poetry form.

kayaking
estacada lake
sunshine warms
calm waters
osprey observes visitors
waits for the corn moon

© jone rush macculloch (draft, 2020)

Tomorrow I take my three grand girls kayaking at the lake. It will be warm and hopefully we can make it to the bridge and back.

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DO YOU KNOW WHAT SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 CELEBRATES?

NATIONAL MATH STORYTELLING DAY #MathStorytellingDay

A little history. It was created in 2009. It’s a day to tell stories using math.

The fourth Friday of September is #NationalBRAVEDay. September 25th is that Friday.
This began in 2017 to uplift and honor the women who make up feel brave.

So why am I focusing on September 25, 2020? Because I will be hosting Poetry Friday.

How about the theme of poems that tell a math story or honor a brave woman might be fun.

Maybe your poem will feature a poem steeped in a mathematical structure: Fibonacci, Zeno, Cinquain, Nonet, Sijo, or Arun. Or any poem with a mathematical structure.

Maybe your poem will combing both BRAVE and a Math Story.

Are you in?

Wordless Wednesday: Week 36

9/22/2020

Sunday Solace: Week 36

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Wordless Wednesday: Week 35

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Sunday Solace: Week 35

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Poetry Friday: …During the Pandemic

9/22/2020

All the Poetry Friday goodness is happening at Ramona’s Pleasures from the Page

A friend of mine has recently started looking at the pandemic with a different lens. Instead of from the loss lens, she’s been adding “during the pandemic” at the end of her sentences as she focuses through a positive lens.

It started me thinking. Today, I share a page form my notebook. I started writing with a group of women twice a month during the pandemic. We Zoom meet on Saturdays for about an hour in the Mud Puddle Writing Hour. The organizer provides a prompt.

Last Saturday the prompt was Guilty Pleasures. We wrote for ten minutes. I am always surprised at where the prompts can take a writer.

Guilty Pleasures from the Window

Crocosmia opens
blooms wide-an invitation

Hummingbirds sip nectar
refuel mid-flight

Juncos flit between feeders
breakfasting on nuts and seeds

Grey squirrel flicks
his tail, the party crasher

My hands warmed by my tea cup
as dawn breaks

©jone rush macculloch (2020, draft)

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DID YOU KNOW WHAT SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 CELEBRATES?

NATIONAL MATH STORYTELLING DAY #MathStorytellingDay

A little history. It was created in 2009. It’s a day to tell stories using math.

The fourth Friday of September is #NationalBRAVEDay. September 25th is that Friday.
This began in 2017 to uplift and honor the women who make up feel brave.

So why am I focusing on September 25, 2020? Because I will be hosting Poetry Friday.

How about the theme of poems that tell a math story or honor a brave woman might be fun.

Maybe your poem will feature a poem steeped in a mathematical structure: Fibonacci, Zeno, Cinquain, Nonet, Sijo, or Arun. Or any poem with a mathematical structure.

Maybe your poem will combing both BRAVE and a Math Story.

Are you in?

And I am planning to have my new website up. Details will be coming.