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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 5:  A New Fun Challenge For February

2/3/2022

 
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Elisabeth at Unexpected Intersections is doing hosting duties this Friday.
​The Inklings Challenge from Catherine this month: “Write a mathematical poem, such as a fib, pi poem, nonet, etc.”

The Poetry Sisters will be  trying this out: The Exquisite Corpse


On Instagram, there's a really cool challenge for February: Februllage.  It involves collaging to a daily prompt.  I've decided to play with some collage with a bonus of writing a poem. 
Day 1: Cat 
Jaguar
The jaguar
by the 20th century
the loss of habitat
the first wild cats
listed
The Endangered Species Act
sittings of jaguars
research and monitoring
the species needs

©2022, jone rush macculloch

Day 2: Sisters

two sisters
recipe keepers
of secrets

©2022, jone rush macculloch

Day 3: Octopus

Octopus Tree

rarity
Pacific Northwest
fact or hoax?

©2022, jone rush macculloch

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 22: Spark 48 with Margaret Simon

6/3/2021

 
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Today Margaret at Reflections on the Teche is hosting Poetry Friday.  And we are sharing collaborative posts.I decided to once again participate in SPARK, organized by Amy Souza. ( participated in SPARK 27 with an Inspiration piece and a Response piece).

If you are not familiar with this creative community, please check it out.  For times a year, writers, musicians, and visual artists are invited to participate in a 10-day project round.  As a participant
​you create a new work by using someone’s art, writing or music as inspiration.  And you have work with someone you know if you wish.  


I put the call out to the group of friends and Margaret responded. She sent me today’s poem and I created a mixed media response. I sent Margaret a photo from the California Redwoods and she wrote a poem for it.  She's sharing her response on her blog today.

This is the inspiration from Margaret:
Notes in a Locker
I forgot
    who she wanted to become.
    
A note dropped into a locker
     scribbled in cursive,
     curly letters to sign her name.
I forgot
     who she was.
     When notes became soggy
     tissue floating in the river
      buried beneath the flood,
      we climbed out on Easter morning.
I forgot
      who she wanted to be.
      Her blonde Dorothy Hamill haircut
      flirted with the boys
       just wanting to be loved.
I become
     who she is
      daily walking from
      cocoon of sleep
       into full moon rising,
       
​      being fine

      being she
       being me.
 ©Margaret Simon

This was great fun. I will admit to some anxiety of getting it perfect. But I went with my heart and gut. The funny thing is that after reading Margaret’s poem, an image of a red locker came to me.  It surprised me upon re-reading her poem that while it said ‘locker’, the word red was nowhere in the poem. I noted these words in Margaret’s poem:
Locker
Note scribbled in cursive
Floating on the river
Dorothy Hamill haircut (those of us of a certain age had this haircut, “The Wedge”)
Full moon rising
Cocoon

My process for the mixed media was to create some painted papers. I have my great-grandfather’s letters from the Civil War, 1863 in cursive.  I printed them and added paint.  The red frame is from a gardening book. While I didn’t have a magazine photo of Dorothy Hamill, I was able to find an image and hide it in the painted papers. 

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Through the Red Locker: Bayou Moon
To see them on the SPARK website: 
Jone MacCulloch, Inspiration piece and How Do We Stand? By Margaret Simon,
Response

Notes in a Locker By Margaret Simon, Inspiration piece and Jone MacCulloch
SPARK 48 happens in August.  It’s a great way to play in art. This is something that I am trying to do more of since retirement.
Response

#2021NPM Three Poems

4/29/2021

 
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.
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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.

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