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Lots of poetry to share with you today and I’ve decided to include two apophysis pics for you as well!
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Hello Dear Ones! My book – A Year in the Life of a Bus-Traveling Poet – went to the printers on June 29th. Blessings be, we beat the deadline! Since then I’ve been filling all my spare time writing poetry galore! Lots to include today … enjoy! Continue reading “Poetry ‘n’ Pics III“ Hello Dear Ones! Well, June 30th has come and gone. It is now Canada Day – July 1st – and my book is at the printer, having met its deadline! Here’s a sneak peak, especially for you: a write-up of my bio and a précis of my book – plus the fabulous cover that my hubbie Mike did up for me! Check it out here: Marcia’s New Book. Continue reading “Poetry Corner – Sneak Peek“
//poetry and pics / the perfect combination / revealing one’s heart// (senryu) ***//origami gift / crafted by my husband’s hands / and his loving heart// (senryu) *****//music from teen years / saddle shoes and bobby sox / worn out from dancing// [...] Hello Dear Ones! Today’s Poetry Corner is being dedicated to a new category within M&M’s Musings: Poetry ‘n’ Pics. Seems that two creative passions vie for my time and attention each day – poetry and fractal artwork. Many of you who know me through Twitter will be familiar with my micropoetry. Individual tweets of my poems get sent out in that fashion on occasion. Yet there are days – like today – when I write six, nine, a dozen or more! I don’t like overloading inboxes with tweet after tweet of my verse. The majority of you would be unaware that I also do art work through the computer. Many of my pieces have found their way to our Flickr site (click on Fractals: my work shows up under Marcia’s Apophysis Galaxies). Here are two of my favourite pieces – the Beribboned Buddha plus Mother and Child: Continue reading “Poetry Corner – Poetry ‘n’ Pics!“ Hello Dear Ones! It has been a rather dreary day, weather-wise. I needed a bit of a lift. Poetry always provides that lift for me. I was moved to peruse through some of Mattie Stepanek‘s poetry with hopes of adding some exceptional quality to the emotional energy that seemed to be lacking in my day. I was not disappointed! As I was preparing this post, I also went to Mattie’s website to happily discover the following article:
That event took place a mere few days ago. I’m sharing with you today, from his Journey Through Heartsongs book, Mattie’s accolade to someone in his life (obviously Mr. Thompson according to the poem’s title) who loves poetry. Being a poet, and loving the art as much as Mattie did, this poem is a gift to all people whose love of that art brings us all together in joy and the wonder of life. Continue reading “Poetry Corner – For Poetry Lovers“ Hello Dear Ones! If I submitted a tweet for every haiku I write, everyone who follows me would see my smiley-faced avatar umpteen times a day. It also means I’d not have time to do much other than write haiku and enter tweets in to Twitter! I tweet enough as it is without adding an additional load to my followers’ HootSuite or TweetDeck or other such options! As a result, today’s Poetry Corner will offer a compilation of the haiku and related styles of micropoetry that I have recorded the past week. They are provided here in the order in which they came to me. Haiku subjects vary moment by moment in topic for me – just the way my mind works and my heart connects to all that is in my life. You’ll notice there is seldom a common theme: with one exception – the Progressive Haiku poems (seen as #progressivehaiku in Twitter) that have an emotional series or chain of thought over several stanzas from sadness to joy. Enjoy! Continue reading “Poetry Corner – Haiku Galore!“ Hello Dear Ones! Over the years there has been controversy regarding the appropriate use of punctuation in poetry. From when to insert a simple comma, to the applicable introduction of a hyphen – and all the way to the final stop, or period. Discussion ranges from using or ignoring an apostrophe, such as it’s and its, to the more demanding option of a colon or a semi-colon. Depending on the style of poetry used, punctuation can vary. Many poets use the breath as the only natural comma and hence end a line and create movement down to the line beneath it to effect that breath. Gertrude Stein, who called the comma ‘servile’, expressed an interesting dispassion for semi-colons. She wrote (notice her lack of commas in this writing) back in 1935 in her book “Poetry and Grammar”:
Hello Dear Ones! As adults, we often hear what most of us don’t realize was originally a biblical expression: “Out of the mouths of babes.” The term is usually in reference to something a child has said or done that has adults amazed at the wisdom emanating from a tiny being, as yet untrained in things adults should know. We remark on such wisdom with awe, not giving much thought to the Source from which it comes. We all have the ability to tap into Divine knowledge and a knowing beyond our own human capacity, whether we be eight or eighty, or somewhere above, below or in between those ages. This past weekend I had a profound experience that I wrote about in my She Says – Intrinsic or Extrinsic? post. Though I only mentioned some of my situation and the results that led to my writing that post, I had two additional teachings come as part of that overall experience, both of which came through children. Continue reading “Marcia’s Meanderings – Children as Teachers“ Hello Dear Ones! An dear e-friend and great micropoet through Twitter: Tina Nguyen has recently inspired several of us to get into a more extended style of Haiku – known as Gogyohka:
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