Monthly Archives: March 2011
April 1 Poetry Prompt – Recycling the First Dream
When the soul wishes to experience something she throws an image of the experience out before her and then enters into her own image. – Meister Eckhart What is the very first dream you remember having? Whether it was a … Continue reading
small stone #39
A lone patch of the field trembles at the tips. It’s not grass that quivers in this no wind, but a soft explosion of grounded gold-grey feathers – one less chickadee in the sudden still.
Poetry and Personal Mythology – Some Tools Before We Start
We’ll be using journal work and dreaming as we move into our poetry prompts and there are a few words I’d like to say about each. This is the last of the long essays before we get going on the … Continue reading
Poetry and Personal Mythology – Preliminary Thoughts and Definitions
What is mythology? What is personal mythology? Very simply put, a myth is a story with a purpose – that of trying to make meaning, to explain the way things are. Depending on the context, we might also define a … Continue reading
April 2011 – Inkseeds Poetry Prompt Month – Personal Mythology
“Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American … Continue reading
small stone #38
A pause on the walk, or I would have missed this angle: how the sun enters a pinecone, illuminates all the dark spaces between all the dark seeds and, just for this moment makes no new shadows.
small stone #37
Another act of faith: stringing amber and jet for myself again
small stone #36
Suddenly, four whippets – quick dappled koi on the deep green.
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Sunless afternoon – so still and heavy the moss breathlessly outgrows it.
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A new page of snow, fragile space into which things are written: Here, a deer fled unevenly, spooked across the moon’s surface, and Here, green things delay, airless, dreaming, and No, spring has not, yet.
