Category: Verse Of Ages

#2021NPM April 15: Verse of Ages-'Essence'

4/15/2021

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

#2021NPM: Verse of Ages

4/3/2021

Taking a moment to promote a great idea. I belong to Oregon Writer's Colony. For years, my friend Susan Balckaby has organized a wonderful poetry event, Verse of Ages. When I was teaching and had my "Poetry Rocks" group, we performed at the event.
This last year has changed how we do things. Susan has put together a list of words to generate poems:

Floating
Pathway
Ignite
Blessing
Catch
Journey
Baffle
Sharp
Hazy
Answer
Capture
Grace
Fortune
Essence
Dancing
Linger
Heart
Margin
Nimble
Scatter
Pace
Venture
Wonder
Kettle
Oxygen
Risin
Satchel
Quest
Caution
Thrill

There are no rules, just guidelines, including the following suggestions:
·   Use the word-of-the-day in a poem.
·   Free associate to see where the word takes you.
·   Build a web of connected ideas and images to spark an idea.
·   Change the word’s part of speech.
·     Use the word to build a compound word.
·   Brainstorm a list of rhyming words, slant rhymes, words that repeat the consonant sounds, words that repeat the vowel sounds.
·     Explore the word’s synonyms and antonyms.
·     Dig through a Thesaurus or mine the adjacent words in a dictionary.
·     Combine words on consecutive days and work two or more into a single poem.

Short or long; formal, blank, or free verse; topical or fanciful or anything in between—your choice. Wind up your imagination and let it spin.

Word is there may be an informal Zoom gathering on May 4.

#2021NPM April 15: Verse of Ages-'Essence'

#2021NPM: Verse of Ages

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