Happy New Year, Everyone!
How did you celebrate the start of 2023?
I chose one little word for 2023 to see it click here.
This month, Inkling Heidi, challenged us to write about #change.
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| https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ |
By our first meeting of the new year, we Inklings were a little short on poems about change...so we leaned into a group effort with an exquisite corpse poem--which incorporates the idea of change beautifully.
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| https://www.littlevillagetoy.com/blog//poetry-month-play-exquisite-corpse |
All of us contributed a line, one at a time. Mary Lee started us off. I decided to play with nouns by replacing one noun in each line with my OLW for 2023. It's kind of neat. Maybe its not the best poem of all time...but I like it. Perhaps in the future, I'll change it?
Original lines
Changed Poem
by Linda Mitchell
by Linda Mitchell
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| January 6, 2022 |
I have started a new padlet for WORD! Oh, my does it look empty and lonely right now. I look forward to seeing how this year helps fill it up. https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/bwfgg0bqmjhf62fd/wish/2432307562
Thank you, Inkling Catherine, for hosting our first Poetry Friday of 2023 at Reading to the Core. Make sure to stop over at her blog to see how she wrote a changed poem too!
Additionally, find changed poems at:
Magaret, Reflections on the Teche
Heidi, My Juicy Little Universe
Heidi, My Juicy Little Universe
I like how changing one word in each line to your WORD impacted the poem. Each line could lead to it's own poem.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I love that your OLW is word! Secondly, how clever of you to weave your word into our poem. It works!
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to start your year with this poem of change & your OLW, Linda. This feels like your challenge poem! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteMy word; what fun you will have this year! My favourite line reimagined is; words shining light / or casting shadows. That is so true of words! We need to use them wisely!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to reading your padlet this year, full of poems!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun idea for your brand-spanking-new OLW! It works remarkably well, and I love your obvious and yet magical title, "Changed Poem." Excited to see where WORD takes you this year, Linda!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic idea! And like Kay said, you have seed ideas for poems in each of your lines!! I love this so much.
ReplyDeleteOh Linda, it will be fun to see how "Word" will find it's way into all your poems this year. I especially like the last line.
ReplyDeleteImagine how happy word will be when more poems come to visit. I love how word made an entrance in every thought, Linda.
ReplyDeleteSo fun! I love your OLW showing up in your poem!
ReplyDeleteI cannot stop thinking about "words on a forest floor."
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the word rocks at Highlights--so I need to go back. Right?
DeleteMmm... Linda, I'm chewing on each line of your OLW insertion. I love the idea of a forest floor's words, the wind's words, words that cast shadows and light... What would the forest floor, the wind, the words themselves be saying? And what a beautiful thought that they all have something to share with us. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful images, Linda! I love thinking about the words on the wind and the forest floor. Definitely seeds of poem and story ideas!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Linda! You made me recall playing something like Exquisite Corpse when I was a child - only we were drawing creatures instead of writing poetry. Your beautiful imagery has me thinking of the language of nature...the forest understory, if you will. There's something so spare and free yet so deep with the use of "words" in these images.
ReplyDeleteI love how you used the framework and then made it totally your own by inserting word within. Word really works in many, many places. I'm hearing all the rustling words now! Love this!
ReplyDeleteI like that the words "lie" (tell falsehoods?), bringing a whole new meaning alongside the quiet stones.
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