Wed 21 Mar 2018
Posted by PJ under love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Love defeats philosophy, semantics, psychology and plain sense. That is how you know it’s love.â€
—Joyce Carol Oates, Twitterfeed, June 18, 2013
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 20 Mar 2018
Posted by PJ under birds, proverb, quote of the day, words
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Random quote of the day:
“A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not returns.â€
—Jewish proverb
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Posted by PJ under poetry, poetry project, rivers, sea, writing
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If you’ve been following this project at all, you may remember that it started as a recreation of a classroom experience. After five weeks of only allowing us to do shorter form poetry like haiku and tanka, the teacher allowed us to move on to longer poems: one poem a week, at least 20 lines, any form. So I think I’m going to try that for the next five weeks.
Now, these will be little more than working poems, nothing to set the world afire, and the only reason I am doing this exercise publicly is to force my own hand. The object is to produce something, anything on a regular basis. I have seen some positive things coming from the short poem exercise, so I’m hoping that trend continues.
Since it’s Monday, my week for this phase of the project will go from Monday to Monday. So here’s number one, actually inspired by one of the shorter poems:
***
Who can know the soul of rivers?
I don’t. They turned our rivers to concrete
long before I was born, choking them
and channeling them on their journey
homeward to the sea, floodtide or flow.
We think they are tame, yet they fool us,
routinely eating children and the unwary.
Oceans I have seen and lived beside,
and no one would mistake them for tame.
Yet who can know the soul of such a vast,
primordial giant, changing with every glance,
moving moment by moment, hour by hour,
the protean mother surrounding the world?
Who can know the soul of rivers?
Wild or contained, channeled or flooding,
they flow through us but are hidden,
on their way home to the mother of us all.
***
ETA: Oops. I just realized I only made it to 17 lines above.
ETA #2: I remembered that the teacher was asking for poems to be at least as long as a sonnet and assumed that was 20 lines, but it’s actually 16. So I’m good!
And just for the hell of it, here’s a random box from my found paper one-a-day box folding project:
*For the poetry project, phase one go here.
*To see all the poems in one place go here.
Fri 16 Mar 2018
Posted by PJ under heaven, morning, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“The morning’s the size of heaven.
What will you do with it?â€
—Mark Doty, “Long Point Lightâ€
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 14 Mar 2018
Posted by PJ under poetry, poetry project, tanka, weather
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Wed 14 Mar 2018
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, style, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:
“The minute a writer knows what his style is, he’s finished.â€
—E. L. Doctorow, The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 13 Mar 2018
Posted by PJ under poetry, poetry project, squirrels
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Tue 13 Mar 2018
Posted by PJ under grief, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.â€
—Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 12 Mar 2018
Posted by PJ under poetry, poetry project, sea, tanka
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Mon 12 Mar 2018
Posted by PJ under happiness, proverb, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.â€
—Hasidic proverb
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
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