 The fabulous Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect is hosting the Poetry Friday community today. Renee La Tulippe has an explanation for Poetry Friday on her blog, No Water River. Do you ever have days or weeks where you have a lot of questions? It's been that way for me this week. This morning (Thursday morning) I stepped outside and saw the clouds. And as I took the photo, the crow appeared. A gentle reminder to breathe and slow down.  I will miss next week. My college pals and I are heading to Palm Springs to celebrate a Golden Anniversary: 51 years of friendship.
Wow! This week. Thank you pollens for being so high and causing itchy eyes, asthma, and tiredness. UGH! So today, four poems. Three a series on the Junco nest in my hanging flower pot. One for Earth Day.    Earth Day has always been special to me. Everyday should be earth day. This is a photo I took last week when visiting a college friend.   Welcome to 2021 National Poetry Month. It's my fifteenth year of participating (some years better than others).
This year I'm taking a look at some previous poems that I enjoyed and will be revising. Some have been on the blog before and others not. I have five great interviews lined up: April 2 POETRY FRIDAY: ALLAN WOLF April 9 POETRY FRIDAY: LISA FIPPS April 16 POETRY FRIDAY: CHRIS BARON April 23 POETRY FRIDAY: JOANNE ROSSMASSLER FRITZ April 30 POETRY FRIDAY: LITA JUDGE I love getting books into the hands of readers so there will be prizes for stopping by and saying hi. So my April Poetry Project is to revisit and redux some previous poems. I am not totally feeling it! So I am changing it up. I am going to revise and redux some poems and sprinkle in new poems with it. Today's is a response to the "Verse of Ages" prompt on April 15: 'essence'. It gives me an opportunity to play with my Scottish Gaelic. Outside my writing room hangs a flower basket. The juncos have moved in. As I thought about the word essence, I thought of the care of their young. bidh eòin a ’biathadh cnuimhean dha na leanaban aca brìgh gaoil © jone rush macculloch, draft Translation birds feed worms to their babies essence of love © jone rush macculloch, draft  Welcome to 2021 National Poetry Month. It's my fifteenth year of participating (some years better than others). This year I'm taking a look at some previous poems that I enjoyed and will be revising. Some have been on the blog before and others not. I have five great interviews lined up: April 2 POETRY FRIDAY: ALLAN WOLF April 9 POETRY FRIDAY: LISA FIPPS April 16 POETRY FRIDAY: CHRIS BARON April 23 POETRY FRIDAY: JOANNE ROSSMASSLER FRITZ April 30 POETRY FRIDAY: LITA JUDGE I love getting books into the hands of readers so there will be prizes for stopping by and saying hi. CONFESSION: I am posting a day late. But thanks to the time travel ability of posting, it will look like Monday. In 2009, In respond to a prompt by Tricia’s , she asked for a poem "outside my window". I wrote a pantoum in response: outside my window the language of spring speaks tulips dance in the breeze as bee symphony plays a concerto the language of spring speaks poppy poems emerge from the soil bee symphony plays a concerto industrious blue jays build their nest poppy poems emerge from the soil daffodils bow heads in prayer industrious blue jays build their nest as dogwood buds burst onto the stage daffodils bow heads in prayer fiddle heads unfurl, frog croaks for its mate as dogwood buds burst onto the stage morning sun cascades through the trees fiddle heads unfurl, frog croaks for its mate tulips dance in the breeze as morning sun cascades through the trees outside my window © jone rush macculloch, draft, 2009 Today I used the words from this 2009 poem to create a Reverso poem. I also updated some lines to reflect where I live now.
outside my window spring speaks at dawn bees buzz-buzz-buzz a concerto red-winged blackbird answers, conk-la-ree tulips sway in the breeze poppy poems emerge from winter soil black-capped juncos gather twigs red flowering currant bursts into bloom I sip tea, Scottish Fraoch and write morning pages I write morning pages and sip tea, Scottish Fraoch red flowering currant bursts into bloom black-capped juncos gather twigs poppy poems emerge from winter soil tulips sway in the breeze red-winged blackbird answers, conk-la-ree bees buzz-buzz-buzz a concerto spring speaks at dawn outside my window © jone rush macculloch, , draft, 2021 Hop on over to Linda at TeacherDance. She share a surprise late snow storm and thoughts on 'time'.j Last week, I went on a field trip to one of my favorite wineries. I was able to photograph a single first bloom. On the weekend, I discovered busyness in the hanging planter. It was also MudPuddle Saturday(a group of women write about twice a month), I was able to draft a couple poems based on prompts. Winter’s scent outside my window questions us,When is spring? Hummingbirds dart, sip nectar the fairy flowers © jone rush macculloch, 2021 draft Bushtits Gather Little partiers, the bushtits gather at the suet block The high scratchy calls twitter-tweet the location A flash mob hangs upside down, dining. All are welcome. © jone rush macculloch, 2021 draft
GET READY! NATIONAL POETRY MONTH IN TWO WEEKSI am looking forward to these interviews! There will be prizes.
April 2 POETRY FRIDAY: ALLAN WOLF April 9 POETRY FRIDAY: LISA FIPPS April 16 POETRY FRIDAY: CHRIS BARON April 23 POETRY FRIDAY: JOANNE FRITZ April 30 POETRY FRIDAY: LITA JUDGE During the week, I will be taking a second look at poems I have written in the past and playing with revision. |
AuthorAll photos and poems in these blog posts are copyrighted to Jone Rush MacCulloch 2006- Present. Please do not copy, reprint or reproduce without written permission from me. 
Archives
May 2022
2022 Progressive Poem
1 April 1 Irene at Live Your Poem 2 Donna Smith at Mainly Write 3 Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core 4 Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading 5 Buffy at Buffy Silverman 6 Molly at Nix the Comfort Zone 7 Kim Johnson at Common Threads 8 Rose Cappelli at Imagine the Possibilities 9 Carol Varsalona at Beyond Literacy Link 10 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance 11 Janet Fagel at Reflections on the Teche 12 Jone at Jone Rush MacCulloch 13 Karin Fisher-Golton at Still in Awe 14 Denise Krebs at Dare to Care 15 Carol Labuzzetta @ The Apples in my Orchard 16 Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe 17 Ruth at There is no such thing as a God-forsaken Town 18 Patricia at Reverie 19 Christie at Wondering and Wandering 20 Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge 21 Kevin at Dog Trax 22 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche 23 Leigh Anne at A Day in the Life 24 Marcie Atkins 25 Marilyn Garcia 26 JoAnn Early Macken 27 Janice at Salt City Verse 28 Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference 29 Karen Eastlund at Karen’s Got a Blog 30 Michelle Kogan Painting, Illustration, & Writing |
