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Today’s poem is pure play! I’m reading Ada Limón’s new collection, STARTLEMENT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and I was taken by the first line of the poem “Prologue: This Big Fake World.” I used it as my first line and went from there. When the lines started to rhyme, I leaned into it and had fun.
Talk about leaning in and having fun…how about those N...
Since we are not your typical “Go Bucks!” people, we will be enjoying a quiet city tomorrow evening while everyone else is glued to their TV sets for OSU vs. TX.
It will be perfect for reading through the Poetry Friday Roundup, which Linda is hosting at
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Margaret challenged the Inklings this month to write a kenning poem — a poem in which “A figurative compound word that takes the place of an ordinary noun.” I started my brainstorm list of compound words while sitting in a Jeni’s Splendid ...
Last Tuesday, we watched “Mary Oliver: Saved By the Beauty of the World,” an American Masters program on PBS. For the first time ever, I watched TV with my notebook open in front of me, taking notes. It was touching to see so many pictures of her y...
Goodbye Iris
Mom’s iris thrived
in the dry
Eastern Colorado climate.
Here,
I fear,
they won’t survive.
This low spot
is the plot
with sun
but it floods.
Their feet stay wet
and rot.
Nothing
and no one
lasts forever.
We must adapt
when it no longe...