Tanita at {fiction, instead of lies} is hosting Poetry Friday. Tanita has experienced the lioness of March's arrival. Last Saturday, I took a class with Joan Kwon Glass through Pioneer Valley Writer’s Workshop. This is the third event with Joan. I highly recommend her as a pet mentor. The class focused on astral poetry. What I love about Joan's workshops is that she includes mentor texts and information to help guide you through the process. This poem is in process and is very rough. It was based on the idea of black holes and the collapsing of them. She had a starter prompt which I used. My Core Collapses When I remember childhood summer nights after the dishes were washed after the evening news after sunset Mom, Dad, brother, and I lounging on chaises in a row muffled shouts of Marco Polo in neighbor’s pools the summer air our blanket stargazing Who would be the first to see Venus a satellite scuttling across the Big Dipper a shooting star Summer nights these days I sit on my deck The sky fuzzy grey blue overpowered by man made constellations for security, for safety the din of of sirens on the streets If I’m lucky the handle of the Big Dipper shimmers before my core collapses By Jone Rush MacCulloch, 2024
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Welcome to Spiritual Journey Thursday (late edition) and Poetry Friday. How are we into week ten of the year? I'm a tad late as yesterday's dubbing job was a whirlwind of checking in books, meeting with students. Then leaving early as my husband has a dental emergency which requires the pulling of a tooth. so unexpected.
This month Ramona from Pleasures from the Page asks us to reflect on 'Gather". I instantly thought about how the Poetry Friday community gathers each week to share from our little corners of the world. We gather words family friends We gather observations the weather the seasons We gather goodness faith wonder creating poems from moments of this life ~jone rush macculloch, 2024 For Poetry Friday, Laura at Laura Purdie Salas is gathering us all and sharing news of her latest book, Oskar’s Voyage . it looks to be a very cool adventure. I have had the opportunity to teach poetry in two different classrooms in the last month. The first graders were to write snowman poems in January but we were snowed out. So when February arrived, the teacher asked if it was still winter and could we do the snowman poems. we also created our snow people. He has seventeen students but not everyone was in the room when we wrote the poems.
Later in the week, I was asked to sub in a third grade class where they had been working similes (it shows). I used a poem from my WIP as a mentor text on How to Have a Friend.
Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference is sharing all the poetry goodness today.
I am keeping it short. I want to share a video of our 2024 Poetry Postcards. Margaret at Reflections on the Teche has hosting duties for Poetry Friday. She is enjoying a week off for Mardi Gras. How cool is that? I'm participating in an annual February poetry event hosted by Laura Shovan. Thursday's prompt included mud and demo-derby. The word mud evokes the three year old me and a time with my Grandma Annie who was visiting from New Jersey and who I would fly to her home when I was four. Announcement! It's CYBILS time! |
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