Poetry Friday, Week 36: #Poemtober and #Inktober

10/1/2021

Today Catherine at Reading to the Core is hosting the Poetry Friday community. This month the Inklings Poetry Group are writing were challenged by Mary Lee Hahn to explain a poetry term (simile, metaphor, allegory, allusion, etc) in a poem that makes use of that term. OR tell how to write a poetry form (ode, elegy, sonnet, limerick, etc) in that form.

Catherine wrote an abecedarian poem.

My goal this month is to return to the practice of daily small poems. Some years it's been called #Poemtober. I am using the #Inktober words for inspritation. On a walk this week, I took this photo.

I am playing with two versions.

leaf shadow
after the rain
memory

©Jone Rush MacCulloch
memory
after the rain
leaf shadow

©Jone Rush MacCulloch

The first word for #Inktober is 'crystal'.

crystal stars
shimmer on the lake
wish makers
©Jone Rush MacCulloch

Linda Mitchell

10/2/2021 03:43:01 am

You have a reverso in the first two versions of leaf shadow. I like it!

Mary Lee

10/2/2021 06:14:52 am

Good catch by Linda -- a haiku-reverso! I do love the wish makers on the lake...

Carol Varsalona link

10/2/2021 06:57:47 am

A reverso and a crystal beauty of a poem! I think the crystal poem should be an image poem. If you find a photo may I add your poem to an upcoming fall gallery, Jone?

Bridget Magee link

10/2/2021 12:41:20 pm

Your haiku is brilliant, Jone. I went with a reverso this week, too but a lot longer. Great minds... :)

Ruth link

10/2/2021 05:59:27 pm

Both words and photo are great!

Karen Edmisten link

10/3/2021 10:02:38 am

Ah, I appreciate the quiet loveliness of this post.

Michelle Kogan link

10/3/2021 07:34:40 pm

Crystal "wish makers" beautiful imagery Jone, and I like both versions of leaf shadow and image, thanks!

Catherine Flynn link

10/4/2021 02:47:02 am

Your haiku are beautiful, Jone. I love the beauty you found in the smudge of "leaf shadow" and long to be sitting on the shore of a lake adorned with those "wish makers." Thank you for sharing!

Denise Krebs link

10/5/2021 03:21:46 am

Jone, what a great idea to write a small poem a day based on the inktober prompts. I am going to look into that, as the month is still new. I love both versions, which as everyone else caught makes another sweet form of poetry. The reverso with the theme of the shadow in the photo seems quite appropriate. The stars shimmering on the lake as crystal wish makers is such a beautiful word image.

Cathy M link

10/5/2021 07:14:05 pm

Poemtober? A small poem every day? That's a challenge I could get behind. I've already started a writing commitment for October, but a small poem a day seems doable. Hmmmm....

I enjoyed reading your poem in different arrangements.

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