 Welcome to Poetry Friday. Today, Margaret at Reflections on the Teche, is sharing a fabulous project as a result of COVID and writing through the Ethical ELA. Go check it our along with all the other fabulous poetry in our world. BTW, #poetryeverywhere is from a Naomi Shihab Nye quote, "See poetry everywhere." I almost didn't post this week. Sometimes I take July off from blogging. This little haiku has bee rumbling in my head since the photo last Sunday. I am in love with this sky and sunset. So many textures.   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 I have been taking classes in mixed media through Jennifer Chamberlin. She had a two part class, Night Watch. I also committed to sending out three "art poetry postcards" for National Poetry Month. So I combined the two. This week has been the pink supermen which influenced my haiku.    I am laughing at myself because when I shared collage books with students, I always said I would never do collage because of the time. Guess what? I think this extremely relaxing. Tomorrow: Poetry Friday and Lita Judge will be sharing her thoughts about her new book, THE WISDOM OF TREES.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. 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 8: 'sharp'. It gives me an opportunity to play with my Scottish Gaelic. fàileadh sròn na luchaige an càise biorach fhad ‘s a tha cat a’ feitheamh © jone rush macculloch, draft Translation: mouse’s nose sniffs the sharp cheese while a cat waits © 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. 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: 'grace'.  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. Welcome to Poetry Friday. Today Heidi at my juicy little universe is hosting Poetry Friday as she celebrates her birthday with two wonderful poems from the Poetry Foundation website. As one of her poems expresses may she have "the flame and the breath for wishes" into this new trip around the sun. Happy birthday, Heidi! Today (Thursday actually) I got to sit outside and read. Oh joyous day. I got to read a book that I will be featuring in April for National Poetry Month from a debut author. Spring is arriving bit by bit. Earlier in the week I found a single tulip from the bulbs I planted last fall. Many of them were disrupted by our residents squirrels. Hence the poem. tulip bloom
a sneak peak of spring despite squirrels © jone rush macculloch, 2021 draft Today Karen at Karen Edmisten* will be hosting Poetry Friday. Please head there to see the goodness of our Poetry Friday Community. There's been quite a bit of chatter about the Covid-19 Vaccines. I don't recall a time that there has been more excitement over shots. And it feels like winning the lottery to get an appointment which I have today (which means I might get to sub in April). We moved last June. Two items that surfaced recently were my immunization cards for the Polio vaccine fifty-nine years ago. I have this glimmering of being in the big space that was the auditorium of my father's school, Clifton. We were given a sugar cube with the dose.  pokey-poke
hope on horizon two vaccines © jone rush macculloch (2021 draft) |
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