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Wordless Wednesday: Week 1

1/5/2022

 
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Poetry Friday, Week 33:  Today's Reminder

9/9/2021

 
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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.
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I will miss next week.  My college pals and I are heading to Palm Springs to celebrate a Golden Anniversary: 51 years of friendship.

Sunday Solace: Week 31

8/22/2021

 
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Blue Heron Rookery, Goat Island, Willamette River

Wordless Wednesday: Week 22

6/2/2021

 
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#2021NPM Days 19-22:Catching Up

4/22/2021

 
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.
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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.
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#2021NPM April 15: Verse of Ages-'Essence'

4/15/2021

 
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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:
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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

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Wordless Wednesday: Week 15

4/14/2021

 
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#2021NPM April 5 Redux: "Outside My Window"

4/5/2021

 
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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


Poetry Friday: Little Poems of the Week

3/18/2021

 
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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
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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


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GET READY!  NATIONAL POETRY MONTH IN TWO WEEKS

I 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.

Wordless Wednesday: Week 6

2/10/2021

 
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