Poetry Friday is Here!

Hello and Happy July!

It's summer Poetry Swap season and I am a lucky poet to receive this hand-made and personalized gift from Margaret Simon. Thank you, Margaret. You made my week. If you've never joined one of the Poetry Swaps graciously hosted by Tabatha from The Opposite of Indifference, consider it. It's fun and gives your creativity a boost.

A lovely and much-appreciated gift of poetry from Margaret Simon

Click on Poetry Friday to find out what it is. I've always enjoyed Poetry Friday Eve...which is now. 

I've been tinkering with a form introduced by April Halprin Wayland, In One Word. 

 
Tomorrow is July 4th -- Independence Day here in the USA. I decided on a patriotic and current events theme. My selected word:

AMERICANS

Woke

When in the course of our era

we, the people, stand guilty of crimes

against our neighbors caught on camera--

chokeholds, weaponized mace,

ramming our dearly beloved with cars

murdering E Pluribus Unum; We are

recalled to our duty, our aim
as preservers, protectors, and defenders

of our United States Constitution to scream

Help! Rescue Liberty from the mire
where her cries fall on deaf ears.
We peaceably assemble as we can
by right as children, as women and men
to redress grievances against fellow Americans.

(c) Linda Mitchell -- draft

Photo: L. Mitchell. Jepson Center Art Museum

Have you tried In One Word yet? I'd love to see your version.

Please include your blog link in a comment below for Poetry Friday. I will categorize links for easy reading here (I'm still traveling so it will be every few hours or so). 

There are some blogs that I consistently have a difficult time commenting on. If I do not comment on your blog this week, please contact me at hubeimom (at) yahoo (dot) com. I will at least connect with you by old-fashioned e-mail.  If I regularly comment on your blog, you do not need to contact me separately. 

Original Poems

Janice Scully shares a poem of imagination and water at http://janicescully.com/

Laura Purdie Salas shares a spectacular firework haiku from her book Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons (Millbrook 2019) https://laurasalas.com/poems-for-teachers/fireworks-poem/

Michelle Kogan shares a thoughtful and original in conversation poem about freedom for all https://moreart4all.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/poetry-friday-rethinking-the-4th/

Bridget Magee shares a poem and lots of wonderful advice and resources about language learning.
http://www.weewordsforweeones.com/2020/07/fun-with-languages-wee-sources.html

Irene Latham shares a new RED poem https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/2020/07/artspeak-red-cave-painting-altamira-poem.html

Tim shares refreshing haiku  https://timgels.com/2020/07/03/summer-haiku/

Mary Lee shares an IF poem she did not submit to Irene and Charles' new anthology. http://readingyear.blogspot.com/2020/07/poetry-friday-if.html

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater shares a pantoum with vital science facts http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/2020/07/a-pantoum-for-our-times.html#comment-form

Margaret shares a poem from her weekly poetry prompt, This Photo Wants to be a Poem
https://reflectionsontheteche.com/2020/07/02/this-photo-wants-to-be-a-poem-19/

Carol shares a poem about a day in the life of a loon. http://theapplesinmyorchard.com/2020/07/03/poetry-friday-a-loons-day-in-free-verse/

Molly shares two poems from recent prompts. It's hard to decide which I like more
https://nixthecomfortzone.com/2020/07/03/ethical-ela-prompt-responses/https://nixthecomfortzone.com/2020/07/03/ethical-ela-prompt-responses/

Matt Forrest Esenwine revisits a poem from the past that was selected for publication. See page 12.
https://issuu.com/moniqueberry/docs/halcyon_-_summer_2014

Mandy shares a poem about birds building a nest. https://enjoy-embracelearning.blogspot.com/2020/07/my-wooden-box-poetry-friday.html

Susan shares a poem preserved in a journal about fairies that is wonderfully inviting. https://www.soulblossomliving.com/the-fairies-in-my-garden-a-poem/

MSheehan shares a reflective poem about today's holiday. https://mhshee1104.wordpress.com/2020/07/04/freedom/comment-page-1/?unapproved=4&moderation-hash=f17915a572d9925de631b995a894cf21#comment-4

Sharing Poems of Others

Little Willow shares  lyrics from When the Smoke Clears by Imaginary Future and Kina Grannis

Karen Edmisten shares a poem by Langston Hughes that is always timely...but more so today. https://karenedmisten.blogspot.com/2020/07/poetry-friday-i-too-by-langston-hughes.html

Myra at Gathering Books is celebrating 10 years of blogging with 10 of her favorite Mary Oliver Poems. Congratulations, Myra! https://gatheringbooks.org/2020/07/03/poetry-friday-58/

Christie shares a Fourth of July poem by Marilyn Singer and a Poetry Swap goody
https://wonderingandwondering.wordpress.com/2020/07/03/on-the-fourth-of-july-poetryfriday/ 

Ruth shares When People Say We Have Made it Through Worse Before, by Clint Smith
https://thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com/2020/07/poetry-friday-when-people-say.html

Poetry Swap Fun

Tabatha Yeatts Lonske shares a Poetry Swap goody. https://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/

Carol shares poetry swap goodies and responds with a golden shovel poem. https://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2020/07/poetry-gifts-from-kat.html