I suppose learning something new can be a rite of passage (Read Write Poem), but the main inspiration came from this TED Talk by Margaret Wertheim. Old Dog Today I learned that frilly things, coral reefs, sea slugs, lettuce leaves, display a geometry more complex than a mere line or a sphere, and that this [...]
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NaPoWriMo #21: rites of passage
April 21st, 2009 8 Comments
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NaPoWriMo #20: The Bride Wore Red
April 20th, 2009 2 Comments
That’s what the prompt said, and I’m not too thrilled with the outcome. Nonetheless, here is #20. The Bride Wore Red Who am I to say she shouldn’t have worn that dress while her groom skated circles around her on cloven hooves and pigs sang from the tree tops?
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NaPoWriMo #19: friendship
April 20th, 2009 1 Comment
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NaPoWriMo #18: word salad
April 18th, 2009 5 Comments
Today’s prompt from Read Write Poem was to take words at random, singly or in bunches, from the list of 50. Having exhausted my interest in that list on a previous poem, I used the list of words deleted and added to the Oxford Junior Dictionary. The result is lunacy. A Cautionary Tale One day, [...]
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NaPoWriMo #17: missing something
April 18th, 2009 2 Comments
The Read Write Poem prompt, to write about missing something, led me to a bunch of questions which led to Neruda’s Book of Questions which led to this. My Book of Questions i. Does the apple miss the tree once it has fallen? ii. Can we know what is lost by the ripples left on [...]
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NaPoWriMo #16: word trails
April 16th, 2009 9 Comments
Today’s Read Write Poem prompt is to consider a single word and see where it (or its synonyms or its antonyms) takes you. I’m still thinking about this article from Henri about nature words getting dropped from the Oxford Junior Dictionary, so the two things came together here. In a Cowslip’s Bell I Lie I [...]
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NaPoWriMo #15: instead of…
April 15th, 2009 8 Comments
Today’s Read Write Poem topic was to make a list poem of things we do when we procrastinate, when we are not doing the thing we are supposed to be doing. The ultimate listmaker was Sei Shonagon, the 10th century Japanese courtesan. So here is a prose poem ala The Pillow Book. Things I Am [...]
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NaPoWriMo #14: Road Trip
April 14th, 2009 3 Comments
Today’s Read Write Poem prompt was to write about a road trip or a car. What came out was this pantun. Road Trip I’m on a strange old quest looking near and then far driving east and now west in my fine little car. I look near and then far for this thing that was [...]
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NaPoWriMo #13: Wordle Prompts
April 13th, 2009 4 Comments
I decided to use Emily Dickinson’s “massacre of suns” approach, a two line poem using some of the Wordle words in today’s prompt from Read Write Poem. Briny as a tidal pool the changeling questions the sea.
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NaPoWriMo #12
April 13th, 2009 1 Comment
More found poetry from the Bayezid Hospital Museum – music therapy. The Diseased and Blessed from Bayezid Veli Hazretleri Vakfiye (The Book of Regulations) Ten musicians nourish their spirits. Three vocalists, one flutist, one violinist, one flageolet, one player of dulcimer, one gipsy dancer, and a player of ut -there is no mention of the [...]
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