Category: Winter

Poetry Friday, Week 4: #smallpoemsjanuary and a Cascading Poem Draft

1/27/2023

Welcome to Poetry Friday,. Jan at Bookseed Studio has the hosting duties this week. She is sharing poetry goodness with Sharon LoveJoy.

The Poetry Challenge this week is Cascade Poems.

The full moon was on January 6, 2023. Early in the morning of January 8, I was walking the dog and caught this image (which Margaret Simon used for #thisphotowantstobeaphoto)

This was my response as in 1953, it was a full moon the day of my birth.

I decided to play with this #smallpoemjanuary as a Cascade poem. Below is the draft.

Born on a Wolf Moon

Her pregnant mother watches
The push and pull of moon phases
A daughter born on a wolf moon

She doesn't always follow the pack
Reads the tidal charts instead
Her pregnant mother watches

Notices winter's silent sleep stirring
Feels the tug of spring roots
The push and pull of moon phases

Her words becomes colors
She enters a new decade
A daughter born on a wolf moon

© 2023, draft Jone Rush MacCulloch

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Graphic design by Amber Fleek

It's a new year and a new month. Catherine at Reading to the Core is hosting Poetry Friday this week. She shared that #inklings have a new challenge by Heidi: “write a poem which weighs the pros and cons of #change.” She added, “for extra fun, use any form, but consider starting in one form and gradually transitioning in the course of the poem to a quite different form.” And the Inklings created an exquisite corpse poem for the challenge.

I am continuing my #smallpoemsjanuary. I was able write a few this week amid trying to get over laryngitis, hubs still sick, and the latest with our burst pipes repair. This is our current state of our bedroom. Hopefully, the equip can be removed on Friday.

I am looking forward to creating art on Sunday for my 2023 One Little Word.