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Spiritual Journey Thursday and Poetry Friday, Week 44: Renewal

11/2/2023

 
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I'm doing double duty today as I am at the coast (perfect for the SJT theme of renewal). This post will serve for SJT and PF.

My mare-stanes (hag stone) at sunset at Rockaway Beach, Oregon.

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Fran of Lit Bits and Pieces is hosting Spiritual Journey Thursday this month.  She has a moving post about renewal and says, "In choosing the theme of renewal, I note that one definition of the word is resuming an activity after an interruption."

When I heard the topic of "renewal",  it was an "aha" as I have always viewed renewal as a spring time word.  As I study  Scots Gaelic, and the Celtic Calendar, we have entered a new year.  
Autumn is also renewal. The harvest is finished.Now it's the time of fall's decay,  the
 returning to the earth. The cold months are necessary for cleansing the land, for the renewal of the earth. And it's fitting that the Gaelic name for winter is  An Geamhrachd,  which is the Celtic word for cold.  

At Faith & Worship, I found a wonderful prayer for this time of renewal:

For the promise of harvest
contained within a seed
we thank you.
For the oak tree
within an acorn
The bread
within a grain
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The apple
within a pip
The mystery of nature
gift wrapped
for us to sow
we thank you

I found an article on A Focus On Nature by Chloé Valerie Harmsworth.  She has wonderful illustrations in the article.  I used the "A Time of Renewal: Autumn and Winter" for the following found poem.

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A Time of Renewal: Autumn and Winter Nature Found Poem
From the article by  Chloé Valerie Harmsworth 

change
the clocks have moved back
the days short


the nights deep and long
the atmosphere seems to alter 
so do I 

mist, chilling
creep through the cracks  

I swaddle
an instinct to hibernate


saving energy 
a constellation
of warm, breathing bodies, 

waiting for the dark to pass 
strengthened
this yearning of mine. 


we can enjoy simple
peaceful activities
go on life-affirming walks
so much to learn

the days and weeks descend
into deep winter

my attention turns
 

to the trees’ naked beauty
arms reaching out to the sky 

noisy, chattering corvids
bring energy to the moment 


the earth’s reawakening
shoots burst with spirit
this period of rest
and contemplation allows me


to open
like the first snowdrop
ready to restart, refreshed and rejuvenated. 


©Jone Rush MacCulloch, 2023 draft


I am looking forward to hosting December's Spiritual Journey Thursday. as we head toward the shortest day, longest night, I am thinking about the importance of light in the dark of winter.

Our host for Poetry Friday is Buffy Silverman who is celebrating the arrival of her new book!

Poetry Friday, Week 43: Spooky Spectacular Found Poem

10/26/2023

 
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Carol at The Apples in My Orchard  is celebrating bats and a milestone birthday. And she's still ope for submissions for her nature anthology. 

I am sharing a Spooky Spectacular Found Poem even on Padlet.  I hope you will share your poems.  Here's the link to add yours.

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Made with Padlet

Poetry Friday, Week 37: A Quick Visual Haiku and Are You Ready for Spooky Season?

9/21/2023

 
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 Carol at Beyond LiteracyLink has hosting duties this week. She invites readers to reflect on the changes of the seasons.  She also invites us to share our summer poetry gems with her on her Padlet.

Today I'm keeping short this week.  A visual haiku inspired by hearing the first geese overhead this week.  I know the changes of the seasons by the geese and by where the sun hits on our windows

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Are You Ready for Spooky Season?

Stay tuned! Did you have fun with Spring's Classic Found Poem Palooza? Next week, I have an invitation for another found poem spectacular palooza, spooky version.  Do you have a favorite horror or scary book, poem or story?  Maybe a Poe, a HP Lovecraft, Dracula or Frankenstein? 

On October 27, 2023, I will feature a Padlet with a Spooky Season Found Poem.  Stay Tuned.

Poetry Friday, Week 12: Getting Ready for National Poetry Month 2023

3/23/2023

 
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Welcome to Poetry Friday.  Rose at Imagine the Possibilities is hosting us this week with whispers of spring, daffodils, and hummingbirds.

This week, I've been busy getting things ready for National Poetry Month 2023.  Between Friday poet interviews and daily poetry videos from my students at Texas Women's University, and the Classic Found Poem, it will be chock full of poetry.



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You're Invited. Share a Classic Novel Found Poem!

I wrote this found poem from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in response to a prompt in February about Frankenstein.
Frankenstein, Chapter Five, a found poem

I.
A dreary night

I might infuse a spark of being
Into the the lifeless thing

the rain pattered against the panes
the candle nearly out
the creature opened the dull yellow eye

The wretch
his limbs in proportion
his yellow skin, hair a lustrous black
teeth, pearly whiteness
his watery eyes and straight black lips

II.
Different accidents of life
not so changeable
Deprived of rest and health
I threw myself on the bed

the dream vanished

I was disturbed
by the wildest dreams
I held the corpse of my dead Mother
I saw grave-worms crawling
I started from my sleep

The wretch
The miserable monster
I had created

III.
I took refuge in the courtyard,

catching and fearing
each sound
My pulse beat,
my palpitating of every artery.

I sank to the ground.
Langor and extreme weakness.

Dreams had been my food
Now a hell
Avoid the wretch.


© 2023, Jone Rush MacCulloch

I will have a Padlet ready to be loaded next Friday.  I will feature the Padlet on April 14.  I can't wait to see your found poems on what you consider to be classic reads!

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Poetry Friday, Week 11: Spark 54

3/16/2023

 
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 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.


Picture© "Temple", 2023 Jone Rush MacCulloch
This is my response to Bianca's poem.  Mixed media.

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

Only a Month Away, Invitation: April 14, 2023 Classic Found Poetry Palooza

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Poetry Friday, Week 8: Remembering An Unwanted Anniversary

2/24/2023

 
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Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference is hosting Poetry Friday this week.  She's sharing a found poem by her daughter and reminding us about patience versus kicking-butt.

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Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko Monument. Saint Petersburg, Russia January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
.This week marks the unwanted anniversary of Russian invading Ukraine.  Last Saturday, the interstate bridge over the Columbia River had many out in support of Ukraine with flags and signs.
 
​As one of the prompts of Laura Shovan's Poetry Travel, a different  photo was shared about Russians honoring victims of from the January bombing.  Sometimes the best I can do is to find a poem in the news.  I found this article at Reuters.

Found Poem from “Russians lay flowers at improvised memorials to commemorate Dnipro dead”

Remembering the Dniro Dead

laying flowers
at the monument 
to Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko
improvised memorials
victims of a Russian missile attack 
​
people were still unaccounted 

One ribbon read "Forgive"
universal human values 
compassion, goodwill, grief
one way or another
this shouldn't become normal

©2023, jone rush macculloch


Invitation: April 14, 2023 Classic Found Poetry Palooza

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©Poetry Friday, Week 7: Found Poetry by Moe Phillips and an Invitation

2/16/2023

 
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Welcome to Poetry Friday.  This week Molly at Nix the Comfort Zone is hosting and her post on winter trees has my heart. I agree they are mesmerizing.

​Today I'm sharing a found poem by Moe Phillips.  Moe is a poetry friend. We've taken classes together and shared poems in a couple of books edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong(Pomelo Books).  She's also been published by  The Dirigible Balloon in Chasing Clouds edited by Jonathan Humble.  These are just a few places that Moe's been published.
Moe is the ingenious creator of The Feisty Beast.  

We have been chatting about the idea of found poetry using the "Classics" and how fun it would be to invite others to find a found poem within the pages of their favorite classic.  Today I am sharing Moe Phillips found poem.

Moby Meadow
From Moby Dick- Chapter One “Loomings” -Herman Melville
 
Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way.
Mountains bathed in their hill-side blue, 
like a snow hill in the air.
The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open.
You wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies.
And there they stand- miles of them.
Take almost any path you please.
Feel such a mystical vibration.
Like a grasshopper in a May meadow.
There is magic in it.
Be content.
Surely all this is not without meaning.

©, 2023 Moe Phillips

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You're Invited!

On April 14, 2023, I  will be hosting Poetry Friday.  I would like to make it a Classic Found Poetry theme.  You're invited to find a classic and create a found poem from its pages.  I am listening and rereading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte for my found poem.  I will create a pallet for us to put our poems on.  I hope you'll be inspired and join Moe and me in creating a Classic Found Poetry Palooza.

Poetry Friday, Week 42: A Found Poem

10/20/2022

 
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Bridget at wee words for wee ones is celebrating the first anniversary of her poetry collection, ​10.10 Poetry Anthology: Celebrating 10 in 10 Different Ways.

As ​part of the recent Georgia Heard's and Rebecca Kai Dotlich's class, we were encouraged to write a "found" poem, using  Georgia's book, The Arrow Finds Its Mark: A Book of Found Poems, as a mentor text.  What I love about this book, is the poetry isn't just from other poems.  

I went in search of texts to find a found poem.  I had a lot of choices and my head was swirling with possibilities.  I settled on 
Breath Prayer: an ancient practice for the Everyday Sacred by Christine Valters Paintner. Painter is someone I have been reading since returning from my trip to Ireland and I have there's a lot to explore at Abbey of the Arts.

The passage I selected was from her chapter, "Morning Coffee or Tea."

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Starting the morning with tea (usually green) is very much my daily routine. I am doing a deep dive into found poetry.  How do you make it your own with borrowed lines?  Can you mix found lines with borrowed lines?  so many questions.

NEXT WEEK: I AM HOSTING POETRY FRIDAY.
​PLEASE JOIN ME.

Poetry Friday, Week 32: Lessons from Georgia O'Keefe

9/3/2021

 
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 This week Heidi at my juicy little universe is hosting Poetry Friday.  If you want to learn about ghazals this is the place. 

I just returned earlier this week from a road trip to Souther California to see family.  Today, I  rearranged and organized several things before I realized it was Poetry Friday.

​This summer I created this found poem and art from an article about Georgia O'Keefe.  Since school has begun in many places, it might be a good time share lessons from Georgia O'Keefe.

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Lessons from Georgia O’Keefe

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Great artists
observe the world

Watching the light
looking 
out the window
The full pale moon
Early morning

Lavender sky, purple hills
the feeling of space
Daily rituals-
rise with the sun
take an early walk
Don’t sweat mistakes
something will come
Stay with it
Be yourself

Carve your own path

©jone rush macculloch, 2021

Poetry Friday, Week 24: Poetry Swap Time

6/18/2021

 
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Welcome to Poetry Friday.  We are so close to half way through the year.  Does anyone know how to slow down time? This week Buffy at Buffy Silverman is sharing observations and thoughts about spring time.  I love her photos and what she has cerated with the word 'time'.

Summer means swapping poetry with others.  This past week, I had poetry mail from Tabatha. She has a teaser in her post for Mary Lee a couple weeks ago. Blessings. They are rather fun to write.  This blessing from Tabatha speaks to anyone cultivating words. Yesterday I started collecting the poems that have lived on my blogs since 2006 and it indeed felt like I was a standing in a poem garden,

A blessing for those who cultivate words

by Tabatha Yeatts 
for Jone
 
May the sun find your seeds 
and rain settle on your sprouts 
and may you pick the weeds
of distraction and fear 
from around your precious seedlings.
 
May you invite birds to sing 
on your branches, bees to 
circle your blossoms, and 
praying mantises to stoutly 
guard your growth.
 
May your fingers be nimble
as you stand before rows of bushes,
ripe with the fruit of your imagination.
 
May your feet tread 
gently but firmly as you walk 
the dirt paths between these overflowing bushes,
​holding your words in your hands, 
your pockets, and cradled 
in the bottom of your shirt.
 
May you find the few you need
on the sparse bush that holds words
for hard times, for times when silence
and togetherness
are most necessary.
 
May you stand before 
the one you never 
thought would bear fruit 
and feel the joyous
bewilderment 
of seeing more than you can hold.

My response:
seeds of sprouts
nimble with imagination-
your blossoms

walk dirty paths
hold words in silence
feel joyous

~jone rush macculloch, 2021 draft

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