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Poetry Friday, Week 49: A Cento for Solstice and a Call for the New Year Poetry Postcard Exchange

12/10/2021

Cathy at Merely Day by Day is hosting us and thanking the Poetry Friday community. So glad you are in the community, Cathy.

Molly Hogan of The Inklings, suggested for the December challenge, that we try the cento poem/patchwork poem.

# PoetryPals the December challenge is to write a poem about bells.

After reading MaryLee's cento last week and Carol Varsolana's cento this week, I am jumping in with one about winter's arrival.
Did you know that the CENTO is an historic poetic form, relying entirely on other poets’ published words? According to Linda Black, Ausonius (c310 – c395) was the Roman originator of the form.

For mine, I researched poems about the winter solstice.

One Solstice

When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire
which burns the spark of luminous goodness

when I stare at paper or into silences
the dark, too, blooms and sings,

The world appears very large, very round now
extending far as the moon

A quiet light, and then not even that.
all the singing is in the tops of the trees

which shook in the wind of night
to drive the dark away

One winter I lived north, alone

©jone rush macculloch, 2021

Sources for One Solstice:
LITTLE GIDDING BY T.S. ELIOT
A WINTER SOLSTICE PRAYER BY EDWARD HAYS
SNOW BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
TO KNOW THE DARK BY WENDELL BERRY
WINTER SOLSTICE BY HILDA MORLEY
AN OLD MAN’S WINTER NIGHT BY ROBERT FROST
WHITE-EYES BY MARY OLIVER
THE COLD EARTH SLEPT BELOW BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
THE SHORTEST DAY BY SUSAN COOPER
THE WORLD BY JENNIFER CHANG

2022 New Year Poetry Postcard Exchange

Won't you join us? We have about 10 at the party so far and there's room for more. Sign up for the 2022 New Year Postcard Exchange. Send five, send ten or send to all.

Did you know there are 22 days until 2021 ends? Woohoo! Let's celebrate the New Year with a New Year Postcard? In Japan, it’s called Nengajo, a Japanese custom of ushering in the new year.

How It Works:

Choose to send five, ten postcards.
Create a postcard: you can buy a postcard and write a poem on the other side or you can create one postcard to send to everyone (I use Walgreens or Zazzle)
Once you get the names, send by February 1, 2022 (beginning of Chinese New Years)
If you choose, you can work in the Chinese animal for 2022: The year of the Tiger. It is not required.

A shout out to this book, HOP TO IT edited by Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell has won the Kids' Book Choice Awards.
I love this book.

Next week, the Poetry Friday Party is here! I'm hosting. Bring your bells and centos and winter solstice greetings!

Poetry Friday: #gratiku, New Year Post Postcards, and "Umbrella" Video

11/20/2020

#gratiku day 14
geese take flight
between rainstorms
time for tea

#gratiku day 15
ancestors
walk among the clouds
remembrance

#gratiku day 16
great family mystery
his birth records- hen's teeth
down the rabbit hole

#gratiku day 17
autumn storm
tree shelters squirrels
umbrella

"Umbrella" video from HOP TO IT

Yesterday's haiku reminded me
of the "Umbrella" video for my poem.
Sylvia Vardell created
on a recent zoom party for HOP IT IT.
Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell always create magic with their books.

You can order your copy at QEP Books via phone 800-323-6787 and email: [email protected]

Let's Welcome 2021 with a Poetry Postcard

Did you know there are 42 days until 2020 ends? Woohoo! Let's celebrate the New Year with a New Year Postcard? In Japan, it’s called Nengajo, a Japanese custom of ushering in the new year.

How It Works:

Choose to send five, ten postcards.
Create a postcard: you can buy a postcard and write a poem on the other side or you can create one postcard to send to everyone (I use Walgreens or Zazzle)
Once you get the names, send by February 12, 2021 (beginning of Chinese New Years)
If you choose, you can work in the Chinese animal for 2021: The year of the Ox. It is not required.
Have fun!

All poetry goodness can be found at
Teacher Dance. Thanks Linda!

Poetry Friday, Week 49: A Cento for Solstice and a Call for the New Year Poetry Postcard Exchange

2022 New Year Poetry Postcard Exchange

Next week, the Poetry Friday Party is here! I'm hosting. Bring your bells and centos and winter solstice greetings!

Poetry Friday: #gratiku, New Year Post Postcards, and "Umbrella" Video

"Umbrella" video from HOP TO IT

Let's Welcome 2021 with a Poetry Postcard

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