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Poetry Friday, Week 50: Collaborating with Linda Mitchell

12/15/2022

 
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Welcome to Poetry Friday.  Only Two more Fridays after today in 2022.  Karen at Karen Edmisten*.  
​Today I have a collaboration with Linda Mitchell.  We shared pieces with one another for Spark 53.

PictureDreams In Between mixed media by Linda Mitchell

​Dreams In Between
By Jone Rush MacCulloch

Letters are small angels flying in between — Anne Wynne, from “Letters are Small Angels”
The queen dreams of letters,
written by cardinals in deep winter. Are
words written by the divine lost? Small
messages from everyday angels
found tucked in each envelope. I am flying
in the alleyways, a queen in
rainbow wings, delivering letters and dreams in between.


Last Call for 2023 New Year Postcards

Won't you join us? We have about 9 of us exchanging postcards. Sign up for the 2023 New Year Postcard Exchange.  Send five, send ten or send to all. Did you know there are 17 days until 2022 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, 2023 (during the Chinese New Years)
  • If you choose, you can work in the Chinese animal for 2023: The year of the Water Rabbitt. It is not required.

Poetry Friday, Week 32: Poetry Swap Star

8/12/2022

 
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Head over to Margaret at Reflections on the Teche and wish her a happy birthday.  She's hosting today. She was greeted with a rainbow for her birthday and has a poem from William Wordsworth.

Summer is for Poetry Swaps

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When I returned from my travels, this swap was waiting for me. Linda Mitchell outdid herself with this "Junk Journal" which is more like a piece of art. and for me, a mentor example to create my own junk journal about Scotland.

an old book
for starry dream doodles
of wonder

© jone rush macculloch

New Blog Post Alert! 

I'm adding "Monday Musings" to my blog.  Here is the link for this past Monday.

Poetry Friday, Week 24: Collaborating for Spark 51 with Linda Mitchell

6/16/2022

 
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Welcome from across the pond.  I am currently in Ireland but planned this post in advance.  I will most likely be on hiatus until July.
Michelle at Michelle Kogan is hosting us today.  I love Michelle's work. And I am tempted to take an online class from her.

This week I am sharing the second of inspiration pieces that Linda Mitchell sent me.  It is a poem, "Coda". It's fitting that next week we will move into summer and so this is our final "spring' Friday.

Coda
Noun MUSIC
  1. the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure.
Now green, these trees are winter-wise
scarred by ice, snow and wind.

Scarred by ice, snow and wind
red bud waves fuchsia with survival pride. 

Red bud bears notes from our sun
Written in invisible ink.

invisible ink revealed by rain
Wintertime is done let us turn toward spring
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Spring reveals herself in rain soaked woods
singing to herself.

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From woods to shore bluebells hum
    a rising chorus to answer Spring
    

Spring responds – waits a beat for the trees
Now green, these trees are winter wise. 

© 2022 Linda Mitchell
​inspiration piece
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© 2022 Jone Rush MacCulloch response to "Coda"

Poetry Friday, Week 23: Art and Poems Creating with Linda.

6/9/2022

 
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Buffy at Buffy Silverman is hosting Poetry Friday today.  I was excited to see beautiful lady slipper s on her blog and notice of her new book this fall. How exciting.

I recently had the fun opportunity to participate in Spark 51.  I asked Linda Mitchell to partner with me on the project.  Since we both wanted to send each other an art inspiration piece and a poem inspiration piece, we ended up with four projects.  LOL! Today I'm sharing my response to Linda's art inspiration piece. It provided me with the opportunity to delve into Amanda Gorman's Call Us What We Carry for a cento poem.

A cento, a poem created  of lines and phrases from other previously written poems like a collage. Like  a collage, perfect for the mixed media collage that Linda sent me.

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Penning a Letter 

Penning a letter to the world as a daughter of it 
We are walking beside our ancestors 
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Every time we fall heart-first into the news,
Life is not what is promised 

The heart chambered by grief 
Life, a page, we are only legible when opened to another 

We rebuild, reconcile, and recover  
We cannot possess hope without practicing it

Reading children’s books, dancing alone to a DJ music 
We shall only learn when we let this loss, like us sing on & on ~ 

Call us what we carry 
If only we’re brave enough to be it 

©jone rush macculloch, 2022
The lines are from Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, 2021:
1.  “Ship’s Manifest
2.  ”School’s Out”
​3.  “Fugue”
4.  “Life”
5.  “Lighthouse”
6.  “Compass”
7.  “The Hill We Climb”
8.  “Every Day We are Learning”
9.   “The Miracle of Morning”
10.   “Surviving”
​11.  “Call Up”
​12.  “The Hill We Climb”




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