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{poetry friday: p7 sistahs do… tritinas}
A warm draft of rising air blew softly through the barn cellar. The air smelled of the damp earth, of the spruce woods, of the sweet springtime. The baby spiders felt the warm updraft. One spider climbed to the top of the fence. Then it did something that came as a great surprise to Wilbur. […]
{a p7 poetry friday: ekphrastic on picasso’s “woman”}
In between episodes of flirting shamelessly with the universe and examining cubism and misplaced ears or whatnot in paintings, Pablo Picasso apparently could not simply hold still. Even while the Nazis were nosing around his studio, he was always busy. Creating. Making. In plaster, metal, wood, bronze — whatever junk came to hand, whatever met […]
{pf: poetry 7 ♢ crowning our year with the elements}
{a year in iambs: twelve months, seven sisters}
Emily: …But first: Wait! One more look. Good-bye, Good-bye world. Good-bye, Grover’s Corners….Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking….and Mama’s sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths….and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you are too wonderful for anybody to realize you. (She looks toward the stage manager and asks […]
{thanksfully 3.0 ♦ poetry goddess}
Ekphrasis is a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art. In poetry – where it is often utilized – ekphrasis is the poet waxing lyrical about a piece of art. In this, we waxed poetic about this amazing sculpture by Danish artist Susanne Ussing. Constructed of the mixed media of newspaper […]
{poetry seven: etheree}
The Guardian, Karen Cauvin Eustis, 2013. A new month – wow, where did September go!? – a new poetry challenge. These poems are named after a woman – Etheree Armstrong Taylor. According to Teh Internets (TM), Ms. Etheree was a poet from Arkansas who invented this simple form first called “The Etheree” and which is […]
{poetry 7: found poetry}
{poetry 7: haiku, classified}
It is the same song, second verse — I am always whinging how each challenge we set ourselves as Poetry Sisters (plus Sara’s brother JC, who is our collective plus one poet) during this 12 Months, 12 Poems thing is challenging in a different way than the last. I fully expected the three classified ad […]
{poetry 7: “in the style of” echoes}
Do you know the word “saditty?” Lest you think I made it up (it IS a made-up word, but I bear no responsibility), I give you A Way With Words Radio’s podcast from awhile back wherein they discuss the word saditty – or seditty, as it was once spelled. It’s a portmanteau words for “sedate” […]