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Poetry Friday, Week 44, November #poetrypals Challenge and More

11/26/2021

 
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Ruth at there is no such thing as a God-forsaken town is hosting us and old school style this morning.  Her Ode to Haiti in Autumn is beautiful and poignant with all that is happening in Haiti right now.  I pray for peace in Haiti.

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 The Poetry Sisters invited us to  join their challenge for the month of November! Writing an Ode to Autumn. An ode is a lyrical poem, a way of marking an occasion with a song. Whether you choose an irregular ode with no set pattern or rhyme, or the ten-line, three-to-five stanza famed by Homer himself, we hope you’ll join us in singing in the season of leaf-fall and pie, and sharing on November 26th in a blog post and/or on social media with the tag #PoetryPals. 

Well, sometimes I miss little details, like this was to be an ode for autumn, not November.  Maybe it's because my grandfather always referred to November as the darkest month. And my father agreed with him as Grandfather Mac died in November and my mother, pregnant with my brother was  hospitalized with non-paralytic polio. So maybe I was unconsciously look for a way to lift up and light up November. I begin this month with the lighting of white twinkle lights outside.  My flameless candles are set to flicker on at sunset (how cool is it that flameless candles can be programmed?)

I've been keeping up with my #gratiku note booking.  Last week, I read through my blog to mine words.


​November Ode
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Later sunrises
Gunpowder grey skies
Pink threading the clouds
Wind blustering more
Leaves and letting go

Earlier sunsets
Darkness and candles
Warming by a fire
Family gatherings
November; autumn's hug

© jone rush macculloch


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It's time. Sign up for the 2022 New Year Postcard Exchange.  Send five, send ten or send to all.

Did you know there are 36 days until 2021 ends? Woohoo! Let's celebrate the New Year with a New Year Postcard? In Japan, it’s called Nengajo, a Japanese custom of ushering in the new year.

​How It Works:
  • Choose to send five, ten postcards.
  • Create a postcard:  you can buy a postcard and write a poem on the other side or you can create one postcard to send to everyone (I use Walgreens or Zazzle)
  • Once you get the names, send by February 1, 2022 (beginning of Chinese New Years)
  • If you choose, you can work in the Chinese animal for 2022: The year of the Tiger. It is not required.

Would You Like?

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I am very pleased with the 2022 calendar.

For the first time, I'm offering my small poems
and photos calendar for sale.
It's $15.00 including shipping.  

If you would like one, send me an email at macrush53 at yahoo (dot) com.

​I have a limited run for sale.

Janice scully link
11/26/2021 10:58:02 am

So many lovely November details like the "gunpowder gray skies." Looking forward to the postcard exchange. Thanks for doing that!

tanita link
11/26/2021 01:48:52 pm

Whether you Ode to November or to autumn, I remain in love with those gunpowder skies threaded with pink. What lush imagery!

Linda Mitchell
11/26/2021 03:57:23 pm

Oh, do I feel that comment about the details...the busier I get, the more details I unknowingly drop. It's embarrassing! But, it's also oh, so human. Your November tales sound grim. I do like your notebooking and all the wonderful phrases you've mined. 'autumn's hug' is a really nice way to ride out this month.

Linda Baie link
11/26/2021 06:40:13 pm

I like that you've written about November as "autumn's hug", Jone. Feels just right to me!

Mary Lee
11/27/2021 03:37:41 am

Maybe you've been around the roundup to see all the ways the Ode To Autumn was interpreted. Yours absolutely fits! I love the flow of yours from darkness to light.

Thanks for all you do for the PF community! Looking forward to the postcard exchange!

Heidi Mordhorst link
11/27/2021 04:56:46 am

Autumn's hug comes with an extra one for you, Jone! I'm glad you were able to rescue November for yourself and for us. I will not commit to postcards this year, but I'm so grateful you arrange this for our community every year!

Laura Purdie Salas link
11/27/2021 01:49:57 pm

Jone, I love your poem and how it celebrates both the traditional beautiful things of autumn, but also the gunpowder grey skies and the darkness. They are so overlooked, but they create so much of the mood of my favorite season. <3

Susan Thomsen link
11/28/2021 07:58:03 am

I enjoyed reading your ode, Jone. I can picture the colors in it. Very nice!

Michelle Kogan link
11/28/2021 10:08:56 pm

Love your color in the first stanza and the hug in the last–what a warmer and new way to view November, thanks Jone!

Carol Varsalona link
11/29/2021 05:19:35 am

Jone, thank you for the November hug. Your ode is lovely and I would like to showcase it with your students' poems that you sent me. I thought I was going to end my Gallery with the 3rd edition but I have other poems that have passed my way so another gallery edition will come before the autumn season actually closes. Thank you for the gunpowder grey skies' thought. I have seen so many of those skies lately so now I have a color to recognize it. Thanks also for the Postcard Exchange and your lovely first glimpse of your calendar.

Sally Murphy link
11/29/2021 08:10:12 pm

Autumn's hug - a lovely warm way to turn around your thoughts on November.


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