Read Write Believe: Poetry Friday: Love Letters to February
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Little Willow8/25/07, 1:19 PM| saralewisholmes.blogspot.com
Do tulips know how to kiss?| saralewisholmes.blogspot.com
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composed of couplets (any number)| saralewisholmes.blogspot.com
Spotted owl,| saralewisholmes.blogspot.com
April 1965| saralewisholmes.blogspot.com
November's challenge was to take a line or theme from Jane Hirshfield's lovely poem, "Two Versions," and create a new poem with it. I can't link to the poem online, but it can be found in her latest collection, The Asking. | Read Write Believe
September's challenge was to write a poem in the vein of Wallace Stevens' Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird---except we were only going to attempt SEVEN ways of looking at something.| Read Write Believe
My flowerpots,| Read Write Believe
It was an easy choice to kick off 2024 with an ekphrastic challenge. Writing about or in conversation with a piece of art automatically gives a poet several places to begin:What do you first notice? What lingers with you after you look away? Is there more to the story, things beneath the surface that you're curious about? What questions would you ask the art or the artist if you could? | Read Write Believe
One of my favorite small things: | Read Write Believe
Quotes fill the walls | Read Write Believe
Dead or not?| Read Write Believe
Of course we stopped | Read Write Believe
"The Weather" by Laurie Anderson, | Read Write Believe
The March challenge was the etheree, an expanding syllable-based form we've attempted before (back in 2015, and also in 2020, although it looks like I skipped that one.) The first line has one syllable, the second, two, and so on until you reach the tenth line with ten syllables. | Read Write Believe
Fairy rock, Iceland| Read Write Believe
In 2023, the Poetry Sisters are exploring transformation in all its forms: conversion, alteration, metamorphosis, mutation, growth, evolution, revision, modulation, change...| Read Write Believe
The challenge for November was to create a recipe poem---any form or subject---and "serve it forth." I fear mine is half-baked, but here it is:| Read Write Believe
Another Poetry Friday! The days are tumbling by fast, my friends. | Read Write Believe
At Planet Word's photo booth, | Read Write Believe
Quilt by Chawne Kimber*| Read Write Believe
The challenge for March stayed close to our 2025 theme of conversation: we were to be "in conversation" with a series of four poems written by Lucille Clifton, loosely known as Notes to Clark Kent. Here's an excerpt:| saralewisholmes.blogspot.com
February is a fancy word,| saralewisholmes.blogspot.com
It's a new year of poetry challenges! And this year, I've vowed to be more prepared, more present, and more committed. Will it hold? I don't know, but I do know that writing poetry with my poetry sisters---and the wider world of all of you who observe Poetry Friday--is good for my soul. Let's encourage each other, ok? And more specifically, let's be in conversation, because that's the overarching theme we've chosen for 2025. All our poems will be aware of the value of listening, respo...| saralewisholmes.blogspot.com
Ruins of a banquet hall,| saralewisholmes.blogspot.com
Do tulips know how to kiss?| saralewisholmes.blogspot.com
