Hello Poets,
Happy Poetry Friday. Thank you, Molly, at Nix the Comfort Zone, for hosting our weekly round-up.
One of the things I love best about Jone McCulloch's annual New Year's postcard exchange is all the lovely lines of poems I receive and then play with!
I took lines of poems from ten other postcards exchanging poets and arranged them into a cento.
I actually made lots of poems...but this one was my favorite and it included all the poets.
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| collage by Linda M. |
In nature
sunrise is
incoming tide
old and new
lifting a mirror
the proof that
a new year rides the wave
we pay attention
one year gone, another blooms
Out of tree crumbs
sunrise is
incoming tide
old and new
lifting a mirror
the proof that
a new year rides the wave
we pay attention
one year gone, another blooms
Out of tree crumbs
in snow-dust
where the border ends.
where the border ends.
lines arranged by Linda Mitchell Feb. '23
Contributing poets:
Carol Luzbuzetta
Gail Aldous
Linda Baie
Jone McCulloch
Mary Lee Hahn
Patricia Franz
Margaret Simon
Mary Lee Hahn
Carol Luzbuzetta
Gail Aldous
Linda Baie
Jone McCulloch
Mary Lee Hahn
Patricia Franz
Margaret Simon
Mary Lee Hahn
Marcie Atkins
Carol Varsalona
Heidi Mordhorst
Carol Varsalona
Heidi Mordhorst
There's a new poem, Words of Other Poets, on the padlet this week: https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/word-bwfgg0bqmjhf62fd/wish/2485658929
Linda, I love that cento! It really works well.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful poem woven from many beautiful lines, Linda. You 'weft' no one behind. ;)
ReplyDeleteWow! So many lovely lines, and you created a gorgeous poem with them!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful thing you did, Linda. The postcards warm us every year!
ReplyDeleteAww, I am filled with warmth reading these words and thinking of all of you! xo
ReplyDeleteLinda, your cento is filled with beauty and a strong image of sunrise as the incoming tide. Your padlet poem brings me into a pause-refresh reflective mood. Thanks for the two centos. Creating poems from other poets' words is another small gift of the season.
ReplyDeleteA lovely poem with wonderful lines from poetry loving friends. You are brilliant with centos as well as visual collages. Such a knack for taking the best to make something new. ~ Jama
ReplyDeleteI love how the words get written, shared, passed around, and woven into new poetry.
ReplyDeleteThat came together beautifully--all of it. I love that it lands on "where the border ends."
ReplyDeleteLove the cento, Linda with lines from all of our postcards. How creative you are! Thanks for sharing it!
ReplyDeleteThis is very lovely and a skilled stitching of lines, Linda. Thanks for the time you took with the words of others!
ReplyDeleteI forgot to highlight my favorite sequence of lines:
ReplyDelete"incoming tide
old and new
lifting a mirror
the proof that
a new year rides the wave"--yessss
How fun! I love both of the poems and I'm amazed at your ability to craft not one but TWO fabulous centos from our words!
ReplyDeleteThe weaving of words from various poems and poets creates something new, something able to be re-imagined and appreciated in a new way. You have done something from the heart here, Linda. It shines through...
ReplyDeleteVery cool! I love this!
ReplyDeleteWhat a delightful endeavor, Linda! I love the resulting cento!
ReplyDeleteLinda, this is astonishing! <3
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing both of these collected-line poems, with lovely images of sunrise in words and your collage!
ReplyDeletethe gift that keeps on giving! Thank you, Linda for a collective ode to joy: our postcard exchange, our love for nature's gifts, and our walking together into a new year.
ReplyDeleteTrust you to gather all the incoming gifts and turn them into another gift! This is lovely, Linda, and I especially like to imagine the sunrise as incoming tide.
ReplyDeleteLinda, I love that you wrote lots of centos. That is special that you spent time with the others' poems and found the arrangement you liked best. I love this image: "tree crumbs / in snow-dust"
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I missed this last week. What a lovely idea to make a cento from the cards.
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