tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36824999422348041282024-03-18T06:52:41.163-04:00A Word EdgewiseI write when I can get a word in edgewise
Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.comBlogger575125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-87940039364058643842024-03-14T06:01:00.004-04:002024-03-14T17:45:36.262-04:00March Mash-up<p><span style="font-size: large;">Hello Poets,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">There's one week before my spring break. Hooray!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I was fresh out of ideas for Poetry Friday. So, this mash-up feels like a bit of a cheat. But, I recommend creating mash-ups (formerly known as cento), though, for times when one's gray matter isn't quite up to the task of creating fabulous original thought.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here's how to mash up: Find very different poems. I like nursery rhymes and classic poems. Then, mash them up together any way that strikes your fancy. Don't forget to give credit to the original authors. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here's an example of a mash-up between Frost's </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Nothing Gold Can Stay</i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> and a version of </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">I See the Moon</i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> as sung by Meredith Wilson:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">March Mash-up</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Nature’s first green is gold,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I see the moon and the moon sees me,</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Her hardest hue to hold.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Shining through the branches of the old oak tree.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Her early leaf’s a flower;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Oh, let the light that shines on me,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Then leaf subsides to leaf.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Shine on the ones I love.</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">So Eden sank to grief,</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Over the mountains, over the sea,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">So dawn goes down to day.</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Back where my heart is longing to be.
</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nothing gold can stay.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Oh, let the light that shines on me,</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Shine on the ones I love.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 24px; white-space: pre;">There's a new poem on World's <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2918722436" target="_blank">padlet.</a>
</span><span style="font-size: xx-small; white-space: pre;">https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2918722436</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 24px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 24px; white-space: pre;">Thank you, <a href="http://tanitasdavis.com/wp/" target="_blank">Tanita Davis</a>, for hosting this week's round-up!</span></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-32424645663660104672024-03-07T19:59:00.002-05:002024-03-07T19:59:00.207-05:00Gathering & Women's History Inspiration<p><span style="font-size: large;">Friends,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This post is a two-fer...and no one is more surprised than me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://pleasuresfromthepage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ramona</a> is hosting Spiritual Journey today Laura Purdie Salas is hosting Poetry Friday. This post is for both. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">When Ramona shared her OLW, <i>Gathering</i>, as a prompt. I smiled. I love this word. It's welcoming and warm. I didn't think I had anything to write about...but then...I did.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>This weekend, I'll gather with school librarians at </span><span>a regional conference in my area. We'll swap ideas and talk over issues that we deal with on a day-to-day basis. I gain so much camaraderie and fellowship from these gatherings. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">My most local group that is part of the larger region is hosting a craft boutique at the conference. We will accept donations toward a scholarship in memory of our late friend, Beth. Beth was an outstanding school librarian who inspired us regularly before she passed away several years ago. I miss her spunk and laugh every time we, her librarian friends, gather. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxGIKo35yZ7Myq6-qCEtzIL4wxrOPNBrNaGZoDKDzq_HhDAYd8vsx21hW6G4Ss917TgwLDwOWT4l-aixu8yvJVi6m2qkyC-3O5lAZrJ-91IBcrY47VM9Vx3SmGj-c6dKw0hjex0hps3yhApzmzjkIOGh5MHJWtH80o-sgQTBViz_QpGIHX_7aCEWlVluI/s960/UseYourWords6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxGIKo35yZ7Myq6-qCEtzIL4wxrOPNBrNaGZoDKDzq_HhDAYd8vsx21hW6G4Ss917TgwLDwOWT4l-aixu8yvJVi6m2qkyC-3O5lAZrJ-91IBcrY47VM9Vx3SmGj-c6dKw0hjex0hps3yhApzmzjkIOGh5MHJWtH80o-sgQTBViz_QpGIHX_7aCEWlVluI/w640-h360/UseYourWords6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">During the pandemic lockdown I found myself weeding...cleaning out closets, weeding my school library, spending time organizing. Simultaneously I gathered old and pretty paper from discarded books to make crafts.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9xIM8XXnfX53_8yEtHy9RLIQYku4AqQz6ftTw0ceM5pKwsZ6p1tkenN3i7a_6t1qVgRJU4EFQMyAcFRggYtw42XmudgcOxr9rzLcoNIv-1-mAIYQmLRQFXHOz1kLcqigyzir4XLAbEWYlPMXhfp13htyDa_s-I7Ydul2nkvHqpFKxAxpzvLCFgvp4MQ/s960/UseYourWords4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9xIM8XXnfX53_8yEtHy9RLIQYku4AqQz6ftTw0ceM5pKwsZ6p1tkenN3i7a_6t1qVgRJU4EFQMyAcFRggYtw42XmudgcOxr9rzLcoNIv-1-mAIYQmLRQFXHOz1kLcqigyzir4XLAbEWYlPMXhfp13htyDa_s-I7Ydul2nkvHqpFKxAxpzvLCFgvp4MQ/w640-h360/UseYourWords4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;">I've had lots of fits and crafting starts...and hours watching YouTube. But, being in my craft area, gathering supplies to make something for someone else fills my soul with joy. I find the activity of making soothing, healing even. I hope someone picks up a pretty paper and takes it home.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcbBdV5guqm7cAJrEg_TfEXr1GgqWfDsOiQ2d_LrRUUlzDWyQ0mn9daYDQo_98zYeOwNDWkoC24i3tqU8iZVCDebQHKuBa1qVAePlzj2sAFWUecfMAkYAXSTuYpJtSka3rYKDPBPzTd1gqBnFgNs_DYtw3tGJ6yelJkJNkDjkDHNrjmZq01pJ31-aSX8/s960/UseYourWords3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcbBdV5guqm7cAJrEg_TfEXr1GgqWfDsOiQ2d_LrRUUlzDWyQ0mn9daYDQo_98zYeOwNDWkoC24i3tqU8iZVCDebQHKuBa1qVAePlzj2sAFWUecfMAkYAXSTuYpJtSka3rYKDPBPzTd1gqBnFgNs_DYtw3tGJ6yelJkJNkDjkDHNrjmZq01pJ31-aSX8/w640-h360/UseYourWords3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It's Women's History Month! I love finding stories of women who made our world a better place but may not be well known to us.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifpkupH2t19ZLdjMiwww0yJY7UYSJS6zsaijA_1ifjufXhgj5Zf8IEDHg377F1MLlqKJgBuh33mipO_9baIOgPjf7PEmvMqegnujWmwrpPl80AYX1Lz4JrW4qgLj9j-soF5euREDbFNwYVvDb9rvDNENk0MsBStST8-S_rBiDXFdVwUheu1OjQFNONogc" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1742" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifpkupH2t19ZLdjMiwww0yJY7UYSJS6zsaijA_1ifjufXhgj5Zf8IEDHg377F1MLlqKJgBuh33mipO_9baIOgPjf7PEmvMqegnujWmwrpPl80AYX1Lz4JrW4qgLj9j-soF5euREDbFNwYVvDb9rvDNENk0MsBStST8-S_rBiDXFdVwUheu1OjQFNONogc=w640-h434" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">'Fog Bank' by Emmi Whitehorse</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMH33yqY7fy43BNnrAbeFGNR7Wk6J_oSfWTfZcWgcHHALxVHcOLixidRzsHYd2x5feIu3poaRaLSaGjB3binoksrozqwxDdMNlPEpuUXrlD3XuCeqq5rt3XvWQ2Ts885OmxqWbUH_QIjMgyLkXD3AuYrPPEk0jshTwirRpLHE78Qdo7NXGittMkIzqNMo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="25" data-original-width="317" height="16" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMH33yqY7fy43BNnrAbeFGNR7Wk6J_oSfWTfZcWgcHHALxVHcOLixidRzsHYd2x5feIu3poaRaLSaGjB3binoksrozqwxDdMNlPEpuUXrlD3XuCeqq5rt3XvWQ2Ts885OmxqWbUH_QIjMgyLkXD3AuYrPPEk0jshTwirRpLHE78Qdo7NXGittMkIzqNMo=w200-h16" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">haiku by Linda M.<br /></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Emmi Whitehorse is an artist whose work is featured in the National Gallery of Art's Artist Spotlight, <i><a href="https://www.nga.gov/stories/10-contemporary-women-artists-to-know.html" target="_blank">10 Contemporary Women Artists to Know.</a> </i>I thought her work, <i>Fog Bank</i>, fit this haiku.</span><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2909629344" target="_blank">World Poem Padlet</a> has gained a new entry. Gosh, I love to see poems pile up!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, <a href="https://laurasalas.com/blog/" target="_blank">Laura Purdie Salas</a> for hosting the round-up this week. I'll get around to reading and commenting on posts after the conference.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-44897964531125338052024-02-29T16:25:00.001-05:002024-02-29T18:02:45.837-05:00What the Letter Said<p><span style="font-size: large;">Hello March Poets,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our Inkling challenge comes from Margaret this month:</span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-53c2b786-7fff-31d9-56f9-be84bfab7f3b"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Persona Poem: A persona poem has a specific audience, conveys a message, is written in the voice of another person, place, or thing, and uses direct address. Sample poem, </span><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47559/mother-to-son" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Mother to Son” </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">by Langston Hughes.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I dug into my photos from my recent trip to Germany for inspiration. </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg09SdRDiyQLDW6A2mDXu2mmiHSdg94BnHGZPEJOlNbmfuCZ_knCvMZF0HS3yFF-jbvwO4Fi_UWo4gV6qF2JBQ5suddG4b5B5yNxG-VAa3WFphE7uG_9VVxWtyxdINDtvdr1-9BtPtkQtgMeXw0-V2LLLgqSk_6aPMJXH8IQ_0GuLXe1euW4nWf8ySZIZA/s1080/AngelikaTischbein.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="712" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg09SdRDiyQLDW6A2mDXu2mmiHSdg94BnHGZPEJOlNbmfuCZ_knCvMZF0HS3yFF-jbvwO4Fi_UWo4gV6qF2JBQ5suddG4b5B5yNxG-VAa3WFphE7uG_9VVxWtyxdINDtvdr1-9BtPtkQtgMeXw0-V2LLLgqSk_6aPMJXH8IQ_0GuLXe1euW4nWf8ySZIZA/w422-h640/AngelikaTischbein.png" width="422" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The portrait's description of the artist, date, and details from a quick Google search gave me some rich material to work with.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5k8sUoGsre_1LUcAHUeLpCxM184hATzSuB7eIVFmYeP3rdzsqVR7Ajy8nkjbwejo8eUDg9XY1w-kka0mbmpc-mJ09mKuErjYZrRW9NUTc6DHAx8U5j4BHfZbJgyhM9jhI6O9tw7nHb5Tx6qjNVHI3h8VqCaTEb9NEW2eRk33_mIKTRyhf_ArgwOmZMc/s1224/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-28%20at%205.36.12%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1224" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5k8sUoGsre_1LUcAHUeLpCxM184hATzSuB7eIVFmYeP3rdzsqVR7Ajy8nkjbwejo8eUDg9XY1w-kka0mbmpc-mJ09mKuErjYZrRW9NUTc6DHAx8U5j4BHfZbJgyhM9jhI6O9tw7nHb5Tx6qjNVHI3h8VqCaTEb9NEW2eRk33_mIKTRyhf_ArgwOmZMc/w640-h460/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-28%20at%205.36.12%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What the Letter Says
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You hold me light</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">these words penned by Ernestine</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span>My dear Angelika</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Greatest gift of your parents,</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">this sister.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You are now 15 years old.</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I have</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Long now living
</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">a different life, another world.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">copied this for you from</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span>Klopstock:</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">As if time or distance</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> would grow between you.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span>Beautiful is, Mother</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span>Nature’s splendor of your invention</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">As if her lifeforce doesn’t</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">flutter in lines of ink</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">scattered in the corridors; more</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span>beautiful happy face</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Her embrace falling,</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fell from my pages
</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span><span> </span>that thinks the great thought</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span>of your creation again!</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">into your gaze,</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and tender embrace.</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Your sister, Ernestine</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Hamburg 1822</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Linda Mitchell
3/1/24</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Inkling responses to the prompt:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://reflectionsontheteche.com/" target="_blank">Margaret</a>
<a href="https://readingtothecore.com/" target="_blank">Catherine</a></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://nixthecomfortzone.com/" target="_blank">Molly</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Heidi</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://ayearofreading.org/" target="_blank">Mary Lee</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Week 9 <b>World </b>Poem is on the <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2898920742" target="_blank">padlet</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you Linda Baie at <a href="https://www.teacherdance.org/2024/02/poetry-friday-make-choice.html" target="_blank">Teacher Dance</a> for hosting our weekly round-up. Your heart-felt post about turmoil in the world and choice is a lovely leap day post.</span></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-78442683344709242582024-02-22T20:36:00.001-05:002024-02-22T20:40:35.674-05:00Epistolary Poem<p><span style="font-size: large;">Hello Poets,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I'm sorry that I'm not sorry to see February leave...maybe it's a good topic for a poem? What do you think?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dear February,</span></span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-f5a62605-7fff-0fb3-ee9c-3818fc0fa60c" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before March arrives,</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m saying goodbye.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This isn’t a surprise.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We both know</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">our relationship--</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">has run its course.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though we romanced</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">through those</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">raw January weeks,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve seen you</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">looking more</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and more at Snowdrops</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">popping up around the mailbox.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My heart-shaped candy box</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is empty.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There's no more champagne.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had a great run.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Valentine’s Day,</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lunar New Year.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mardi Gras</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Red and gold sparkles</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>for days.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s not part</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with bitterness.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re adults.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe next year</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we’ll catch up</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">over drinks.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take care,</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wish you all the best.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Linda</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">There's a new WORLD poem up on the <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2892226950" target="_blank">padlet</a>. Thanks so much to Tabatha at <a href="https://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Opposite of Indifference</a> for hosting our round-up this weekend.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc3tNFW3VwiS38zALuAPO7AjceFOxgpauQ-eo_hnyUNeLKF5YfLQWyRzYCmj__qCzvlwJo8GgHU_eka8Z-XDmmvozL1WIOJLo5hDSGKEimBVWslI-S008iAIEu7h8UPcgnI3XONQu6XGFTGlFu1xcfTdMunsuFgdSkRs78Yt0MCJHzyZoUbCRfZUQ3r2c/s5483/brokenheart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5483" data-original-width="4301" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc3tNFW3VwiS38zALuAPO7AjceFOxgpauQ-eo_hnyUNeLKF5YfLQWyRzYCmj__qCzvlwJo8GgHU_eka8Z-XDmmvozL1WIOJLo5hDSGKEimBVWslI-S008iAIEu7h8UPcgnI3XONQu6XGFTGlFu1xcfTdMunsuFgdSkRs78Yt0MCJHzyZoUbCRfZUQ3r2c/w502-h640/brokenheart.jpg" width="502" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #242424; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -28px;">Friedman, Leo, and Pearley B Shelton. </span><cite style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #242424; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -28px;">The Broken Heart</cite><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #242424; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -28px;">. [Chicago: North American Music Company, 1919] Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2013563438/>.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-44857381960923509882024-02-15T17:34:00.003-05:002024-02-16T08:03:25.992-05:00Mardi Gras Dragon<p><span style="font-size: large;">Hello Poets,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I just loved this photo from Margaret Simon's post, '<a href="https://reflectionsontheteche.com/" target="_blank">The Photo Wants to be a Poem</a>' on Wednesday.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwh2lI7xmyzGkO-oEMwOCSBntP1qoRGba5Ah-9ALuRan6xWPa_rsveWNb-kz3A0_wbenYaR3OETAjNd_RflvJQAAWHCDmOflRJNF0LM0E50bz8kDPPjzhZQ6cQPPEvQ1HneQl29swguGsvPv5JcF3IEgY6jYDl6nUt08jF8rnO4HqhYyuBQYAsHALYHso/s1008/DragonFeb24.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="1008" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwh2lI7xmyzGkO-oEMwOCSBntP1qoRGba5Ah-9ALuRan6xWPa_rsveWNb-kz3A0_wbenYaR3OETAjNd_RflvJQAAWHCDmOflRJNF0LM0E50bz8kDPPjzhZQ6cQPPEvQ1HneQl29swguGsvPv5JcF3IEgY6jYDl6nUt08jF8rnO4HqhYyuBQYAsHALYHso/w640-h484/DragonFeb24.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo. Margaret Simon </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">I wrote a draft...but then, I didn't like it. Whenever that happens, I treat the first draft like it's an exercise. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I try to re-write the poem in a few different forms to see if anything fresh surfaces for me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f2b63942-7fff-2465-cf83-dc65baaf4d47"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span> </span><span> </span>dragon heat sweep sweeps</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span> </span><span> with </span>this late-night revelry</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span> </span><span> </span>toss mardi gras beads </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Linda Mitchell</span></span><br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f2b63942-7fff-2465-cf83-dc65baaf4d47"><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span><p><span style="font-size: large;">My go-to exercises always include haiku and triolet. I've recently added Kwansaba and Elfchen. These short forms give me constraints but a short commitment to the page. They help me revise.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f3af675e-7fff-ca57-476b-52eafcd432a0"><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 20pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Electric</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a1f7e567-7fff-d6b1-56df-16590ad36769"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">sequined wings</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">pink and green</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fire-breathing bead queen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dragon
</span></p><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Linda Mitchell</span></span></div></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />What revision strategies do you recommend?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This dragon made an appearance on World's <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2885337880" target="_blank">padlet </a>too.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Guess who's hosting our weekly round-up? It's Margaret at <a href="https://reflectionsontheteche.com/" target="_blank">Reflections on the Teche</a>. Thanks, friend.</span></p><p><br /></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-92191342433579544312024-02-09T05:35:00.002-05:002024-02-09T05:36:26.729-05:00Animals at Play<p><span style="font-size: large;">Hello Poets!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I'm having fun with Laura Shovan's 12th Annual February Poetry Project. This poem came out of this week's <a href="https://www.bbcearth.com/news/all-fur-and-games-why-do-animals-play?fbclid=IwAR3BRbRgrTevL-fVrdtRMeLdq0w5vNyv8Qn_MsLeaEbD9Y5aAumS_RdqVOc" target="_blank">prompt</a> from Heather Meloche. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Do you know animals that play?</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7BacUO0CltEgbcB5RyWL7frxFieKrzOQpLxqSZMzPA8psM_AjjX8092WRD8l90ivRRJVSulQyiAe_XnoCN-sbQtwksZ3TuyjJ9VnOGHsBG3jf_pH9ceHN3JQLggOEYos7UOtuPYTo7rz8Mi13t2rr1_4lKau65JGTEonlyuPFKMQn2TCdaKVbdbudeU8" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="187" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7BacUO0CltEgbcB5RyWL7frxFieKrzOQpLxqSZMzPA8psM_AjjX8092WRD8l90ivRRJVSulQyiAe_XnoCN-sbQtwksZ3TuyjJ9VnOGHsBG3jf_pH9ceHN3JQLggOEYos7UOtuPYTo7rz8Mi13t2rr1_4lKau65JGTEonlyuPFKMQn2TCdaKVbdbudeU8=w267-h640" width="267" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linda Mitchell 2/9/24</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;">There's a new poem on World's <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2878982288" target="_blank">padlet</a>. The poem also came from this week's February Project writing.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Many thanks to our friend Carol who is hosting this week's poetry round-up at Beyond Literacy. </span></p><p><br /></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-6567696410512048592024-02-03T07:58:00.002-05:002024-02-03T07:58:30.477-05:00Love is...<p>I really didn't think I'd post this month for SJT. Life has kept me busy with a lot of details and less time than necessary to complete any of them.</p><p>One of those details was actually a myriad of smaller details. My school obtained a $5,000 grant for STEAM maker stations. My library partner and I seized the chance to create stations that featured high-quality nonfiction reading.</p><p>First, we asked teachers of science and math what concepts needed review and/or enrichment. Then, we planned out six stations that involved student creativity and thinking about those topics.</p><p>It's been busy, busy, busy rolling stations out to students this week as the kids love them! My partner and I have learned at least as much as our students in what to do and not to do and what supervision is needed where at what crucial moments. </p><p>I find that this station work teaches so much more than STEAM. We are explicitly teaching behavior norms, language norms, and thinking norms. I've been coming home pretty pooped each day. But, on balance, I think more good learning has occurred than not. </p><p>Yesterday, I sat with students at the 'Moonsand Mitosis' station. After we scooped moon sand on our trays and I showed them how to form a model of a stage of mitosis we just played and talked.</p><p>I found that students were longing to talk to an adult about life. My Tite 1 school is populated mainly by global majority of immigrants and children of immigrants. Time speaking about various topics has value.</p><p>I enjoyed listening to a group of students compare schools in another country to what they were experiencing here. Even though I heard some stories of tremendous challenges, I remembered what a friend and social worker taught me to ask, 'What do you miss?'</p><p>Kids from even the toughest, roughest places could remember the good things that they miss from home. This is love...remembering, speaking it, sharing it with someone new.</p><p>Love can be big. And, love can be small. Either way, it reaches all around the world.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggN4Y523MkyEeQc828W0V3i_U9YrXzEI-L-7putlq2QGLljgMikz09zm_l_2ZUu6dEM3HKU2AXmJKMbJdojoo_asc29st9Rb-Z55ds6D1veeX0uiST2OUGX7P4fdS1oMYlC8Aggdh4FzLeeXYHeQyxpxAbTuqQECLxuXIETchrUzeRfTcexsYgohW2deM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1074" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggN4Y523MkyEeQc828W0V3i_U9YrXzEI-L-7putlq2QGLljgMikz09zm_l_2ZUu6dEM3HKU2AXmJKMbJdojoo_asc29st9Rb-Z55ds6D1veeX0uiST2OUGX7P4fdS1oMYlC8Aggdh4FzLeeXYHeQyxpxAbTuqQECLxuXIETchrUzeRfTcexsYgohW2deM=w640-h358" width="640" /></a></div><br />Sending you love too! Linda M.<p></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-68607796581674392272024-02-01T06:06:00.000-05:002024-02-01T17:43:50.657-05:00Secret Friend<p><span style="font-size: large;">Hello Poets, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our Inkling friend Catherine tossed out this prompt to the Inklings for our first February Friday share.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"Write a poem about secrets--family, community/societal, government, personal, etc. This could be a narrative (how the secrets(s) started, where it or they led, the along-the-way, and final(if any) consequences. For inspiration or starting blocks for your poem here's this poem, "Family Secret" by Nancy Kuhl: https:..poets.org/poem/family-secret."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-A11wtxU2Sc-Sc1Y8UEYzzCNIcZGZxFDqVJ2UJhOWwGtssZsmVXujagfYVtw64JgRhWWM4sUMwM6BMXkL4gSiHUImevXz1EjjzbkKaqHi-wdWI2fZNaM7ELBNKTqDTUH0cipjDxPGMHqbDuyniCVNazGzOUp2zueWixv5719fxgr2gVFspcFZhn4ohek/s1820/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-30%20at%206.11.17%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1578" data-original-width="1820" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-A11wtxU2Sc-Sc1Y8UEYzzCNIcZGZxFDqVJ2UJhOWwGtssZsmVXujagfYVtw64JgRhWWM4sUMwM6BMXkL4gSiHUImevXz1EjjzbkKaqHi-wdWI2fZNaM7ELBNKTqDTUH0cipjDxPGMHqbDuyniCVNazGzOUp2zueWixv5719fxgr2gVFspcFZhn4ohek/w640-h554/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-30%20at%206.11.17%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo and poem by Linda Mitchell 2/2/24</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pawprints in recent snow gave me a giggle one day...where was the owner of the paws? I think it's a cat that has managed to live feral in our neighborhood for months. I've tried to feed this cat and make friends...but it's a stray that does not want to be anyone's pet. That's OK. We can be secret friends...until it snows.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Secret Friend Visit</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A secret visit by my secret friend</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">peeking in my window to make sure</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">all inside is as it should be.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Someday, I hope they’ll be brave enough</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to tiptoe inside, purr, or chirp, </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">hello!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sit quietly by me sipping my tea--
</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 21pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">happy with a secret friend’s secret visit.</span></p><p> </p><p><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This poem is in a form that's new to me. I learned it from the Ethical ELA January free-write. The form is called <b><a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/kwansaba-poetic-forms" target="_blank">Kwansaba</a></b>. It has:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">49 words</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">7 words per line</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">7 or less letters per word </span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Created by Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club, in 1995</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For more Inkling poems about secrets see:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Catherine at <a href="https://readingtothecore.com/" target="_blank">Reading to the Core</a><br />Margaret at <a href="https://reflectionsontheteche.com/" target="_blank">Reflections on the Teche</a><br />Molly Hogan at <a href="https://nixthecomfortzone.com/" target="_blank">Nix the Comfort Zone</a><br />Heidi at <a href="https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Juicy Little Universe</a><br />Mary Lee at <a href="https://ayearofreading.org/" target="_blank">A(noth)er Year of Reading</a> -- who is hosting our round-up today</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">There's a new <i>World</i> mash-up on the padlet--check it out <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2869722530" target="_blank">here</a></span><a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2869722530" target="_blank"> </a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-91712085247743969562024-01-25T20:06:00.002-05:002024-01-25T20:06:40.450-05:00Pinata Man -- January 26th<p><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Poetry Friday!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I spent a little time thinking about the Poetry Pals prompt for January. You can find it on Tanita Davis' blog, <a href="http://tanitasdavis.com/wp/" target="_blank">fiction, instead of lies</a>. Thanks for the challenge, Poetry Pals! </span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkISf5bgcPEUImHDMYDgyL9WR8h58cSnQuXMh_PDtXgasQ606_lONzzBCSs_IAu_Z7-dySUJHMv-maLA-M97wfVBCveIBVwHFN8FZiX4HLIcbGw31z2TKN_EbQvB3JmIKoJOXFnWarHFjvFI5T8aRboIcs2SSgcORsJPOlvDv2NwrDNENUIfy4qM2V4gA/s2162/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-25%20at%206.00.35%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="2162" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkISf5bgcPEUImHDMYDgyL9WR8h58cSnQuXMh_PDtXgasQ606_lONzzBCSs_IAu_Z7-dySUJHMv-maLA-M97wfVBCveIBVwHFN8FZiX4HLIcbGw31z2TKN_EbQvB3JmIKoJOXFnWarHFjvFI5T8aRboIcs2SSgcORsJPOlvDv2NwrDNENUIfy4qM2V4gA/w640-h324/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-25%20at%206.00.35%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="2588" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBKnrGl9plH-8EVNqFbV1fCVRb3hy7R35xTNxsRKnfcPAm3zGAXEgxd4B0M-gy7otNByKB65HYsxGiN9o-WCtOSp-_eausZYkXosSY9fhGuaRsL6_dF622sh-FH0w6LdEmmOGnhVGRdHCNRzHg3R-hp2Qv8qKbpvUL_0S4NtihoLLKof3OAs57FtXs_EQ/w640-h294/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-25%20at%206.07.30%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Linda's golden shovel 1/26/24</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e253abbd-7fff-509c-b92e-ba21d29a812b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When we are small, we <b>play</b>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Our mind <b>celebrates</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ability to make <b>the</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">world over by the <b>power</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">of ourselves, by the power <b>of</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">our innocent <b>imagination.
</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>And,</b>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">reality is <b>the </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">least worry of a <b>child.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s our work <b>in</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">life to keep <b>all--</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">all we can <b>of</b> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">that once-upon-a-time truth of <b>us</b>.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">Even though <i>world</i> snuck into the golden shovel above, there is a weekly poem for World on the <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2861499548" target="_blank">World padlet</a> too.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Make sure you head over to Susan at <a href="https://chickenspaghetti.typepad.com/chicken_spaghetti/" target="_blank"><b>Chicken Spaghetti</b></a> for all the poems she's rounding up this week.</span></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-27699358872592174422024-01-18T20:32:00.000-05:002024-01-18T20:32:17.037-05:00After Viewing Angel on Earth by Edith Breckwoldt<p><span style="font-size: large;">Hello Poets!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And, hello Friday snow day! Thank you, Robyn at <a href="http://www.robynhoodblack.com/blog" target="_blank">Life on the Deckle Edge</a> for hosting our round-up this weekend.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This week, I have a poem in response to a beautiful memorial I visited in Germany over Christmas break.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Saint Nikolai church was destroyed by Allied Operation Gamorrah during World War II. After the war, city planners of Hamburg found restoration of the church, whose congregation had already relocated, prohibitively expensive and time-consuming in this very busy city. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Since the blackened outer walls, floor, crypt, and spire remained, the ruins were turned into a memorial sculpture garden. Read more of the history <a href="https://www.hamburg.com/sights/places-of-worship/11747434/st-nikolai/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">While visiting the memorial grounds, I was taken with this sculpture. She's beautiful...and the plaque at her base is beautiful too. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Angel on Earth</i> is my inspiration today.</span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgiNr_MBrY6CnwZDq9doPKbIn638QaoB2FIq-DCyGqInYgg0kQaGG9fyzbWIfPkx16-JWlV2vTWYLMWQEIV0VCfcCQ_YkRncx7QfOBxq-uvb0ecKcBWkAqwINyFVJqhihfHEtTi9vBEAlSV4Kp04bALxQhublak-DYVc_A1A6TrVORY6BQHNTxeLloIY/s960/Angel.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgiNr_MBrY6CnwZDq9doPKbIn638QaoB2FIq-DCyGqInYgg0kQaGG9fyzbWIfPkx16-JWlV2vTWYLMWQEIV0VCfcCQ_YkRncx7QfOBxq-uvb0ecKcBWkAqwINyFVJqhihfHEtTi9vBEAlSV4Kp04bALxQhublak-DYVc_A1A6TrVORY6BQHNTxeLloIY/w640-h360/Angel.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Angel on Earth" Take my hand and let me lead you back to yourself. Edith Breckwoldt 2003.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEill-YzQbhueNp0-vTZIslODCg9JKQNge_kWm-rHpybv69pf9iO7m_3fiYSBqLcxMzlsQD_TrckJ2nGGTAMq5cTEHalYsgLgF3uMMF3GQSUrezJDKsHR_h17oJEBu8J4JxQ2IZH95rKhLw4ds7SSSvA6EolLEQxqbWrqgnlRHHsaNX0o7byz9w3mDAQjjo/s1190/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-18%20at%206.09.55%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1190" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEill-YzQbhueNp0-vTZIslODCg9JKQNge_kWm-rHpybv69pf9iO7m_3fiYSBqLcxMzlsQD_TrckJ2nGGTAMq5cTEHalYsgLgF3uMMF3GQSUrezJDKsHR_h17oJEBu8J4JxQ2IZH95rKhLw4ds7SSSvA6EolLEQxqbWrqgnlRHHsaNX0o7byz9w3mDAQjjo/w640-h486/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-18%20at%206.09.55%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linda Mitchell 1/19/24</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8MVLtSaymdWbFZ_IAwW9oGPBET9pl7uVeNdc4Rlvi4BRzz_TYY0gjtayosdJzEzCNW3FLVumC-ObD8qcQCLCJLzatz7sWqWWlh8ETUyy9CG_HYuhWQqCc4V3Y_Mbhr-nP9sqI9SHlROCQtOTwI5G-ANgUuVKUhrYfaByzBIytmyxHjSrl5quRJleymSQ/s960/AngelHandsClose.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8MVLtSaymdWbFZ_IAwW9oGPBET9pl7uVeNdc4Rlvi4BRzz_TYY0gjtayosdJzEzCNW3FLVumC-ObD8qcQCLCJLzatz7sWqWWlh8ETUyy9CG_HYuhWQqCc4V3Y_Mbhr-nP9sqI9SHlROCQtOTwI5G-ANgUuVKUhrYfaByzBIytmyxHjSrl5quRJleymSQ/w640-h360/AngelHandsClose.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">We are three weeks into 2024 and I already have a New Year's postcard from Jone's exchange that I adore. I sent mine out this week. Poem #3 is on World's <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2851783509" target="_blank"><b>padlet</b></a>.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJIiNzhyL1x7ZHWmt2C1ZleQfSI2tio2o2fWpfxBKppDvDQYcvAErzmNEER56AXAuUlcBgxbpWQ2s3doaBERzpX-XtgdDwsuorbhzvs7xds2ZCJ3c-4pQO3Nssp8_aJEEg8Q021PFS6RTjCRk4Ov-SDM1xtIO01fRnSTkD7KdI7F4ISWG-lkt6Yoy3D8/s4032/D7281D25-B9FF-4010-9457-63E1C3F18F04.heic" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJIiNzhyL1x7ZHWmt2C1ZleQfSI2tio2o2fWpfxBKppDvDQYcvAErzmNEER56AXAuUlcBgxbpWQ2s3doaBERzpX-XtgdDwsuorbhzvs7xds2ZCJ3c-4pQO3Nssp8_aJEEg8Q021PFS6RTjCRk4Ov-SDM1xtIO01fRnSTkD7KdI7F4ISWG-lkt6Yoy3D8/w480-h640/D7281D25-B9FF-4010-9457-63E1C3F18F04.heic" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Overlooking Hamburg from the spire of St. Nikolai December '23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-73764623967733357582024-01-11T17:39:00.004-05:002024-01-13T14:24:30.064-05:00January 12, 2024<p><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Poetry Friday! Thank you, <a href="http://traceykj.com/joomla/index.php" target="_blank">Tangles & Tails</a> for hosting our round-up this week.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">January can be a tough time of the school year. We arrive at our work in the dark and often leave as it's darkening or already dark. The string of first-semester holidays is behind us. There is serious work to do, serious tests to take, and grindstones to put our noses to.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdKIF0mbJbRD8Ml0lKOxCt-TbWR2c3zNTGFxkk9INuGQAgk8pbT-83qWNFQaIaoZUCL0hHrjB7qpFEMKOEDitqszZu3A7GodTzbZ0JoiGILAWLByEXYyQWVDxfCaLSHFNlHAczG1bSahJupjC1y4as2C-hvrwhTElhg7EpRo615ct2TctXZsk7CygLTo/s4032/8EEF819F-2836-44BD-A467-58812760928E.heic" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdKIF0mbJbRD8Ml0lKOxCt-TbWR2c3zNTGFxkk9INuGQAgk8pbT-83qWNFQaIaoZUCL0hHrjB7qpFEMKOEDitqszZu3A7GodTzbZ0JoiGILAWLByEXYyQWVDxfCaLSHFNlHAczG1bSahJupjC1y4as2C-hvrwhTElhg7EpRo615ct2TctXZsk7CygLTo/s320/8EEF819F-2836-44BD-A467-58812760928E.heic" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gray winter day</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Many students are doing great. Some are struggling. This is not unusual. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This past week I had what I thought was a fun activity for students. One student, in particular, was struggling such that they could not even find a way to put their name on their paper.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">At first, I was frustrated. I was kind of taking the behavior personally. I called in a colleague who knows the student well and asked that they chat with the student--hoping it would spark some energy. The chat backfired.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Ugh!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">School can be tough. It can feel too hard given the simultaneous internal work of growing up.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Per my usual, this student stuck with me in my thoughts. What could I have done better? What can I do better next time we meet?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This was the frame of mind I was in when I drafted the poem below. I am not in a low place personally. And, I don't want any reader to worry that there is a serious crisis brewing for me or even for the student.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I simply worked out some feelings through poetry. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 24pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Apathy</span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-6312a080-7fff-716a-c26c-ff6bc75e85a7" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I went out into the world</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">not finding a single reason </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to laugh</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">keep still</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">learn something new</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">or even try.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My mind and even my body</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">feel defeated</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">before I can begin.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m not happy or sad,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">not angry, not confused--</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">just lost in such a way</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that I don’t remember</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">how to care in any big or small way.</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This is all to explain my apathy.</span></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Linda M.</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">draft 1/12/24</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">World poem #2 is on World's <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq" target="_blank">padlet</a>. We are on our way--wheeeee!</span></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-19571765037850525912024-01-04T18:35:00.003-05:002024-01-05T05:37:53.899-05:00Happy New Year!<p><span style="font-size: large;">Hello Poets and Happy 2024!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am hitting the ground running after a glorious winter break trip to Hamburg, Germany. Even though the weather was dark and drizzly, I loved all of the Christmas markets, art museums, neighborhood walks, and dinners with friends. Thank you, <a href="https://www.marcieatkins.com/" target="_blank">Marcie Atkins</a>, for hosting this week's round-up.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WORLD</b> is my one little word for 2024. I introduced WORLD <a href="https://awordedgewiselindamitchell.blogspot.com/2024/01/in-2024-my-olw-is-world.html#comment-form" target="_blank">here</a>. A padlet has been started for WORLD <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2837646745" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our creative and smart poemster friend Heidi set the January challenge for the Inklings. Come along and play with us.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">First, we received this beautifully hand-made countdown calendar. Each day celebrates Yuletide with a prompt for thinking and writing. I love this so much!</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb07lssWJRONiQInZPl9gSN9j_LjaMIlrgQ9AkErBgPi9aWRUqWGsM4ooPUaTbeMMoci76wn6zeAb5cQoCugNkNr_Nr6DGe-7wRfpULTtg2YGLd0KMTZQo6hwJ94pTeAY-ACd-NdB268AlSjeIbL3jey0rVSLjk0kRFVaTYLecVt3hnTafr-tsgJfYizQ/s5712/D606E1D6-6206-4A09-AC6D-1E4981B06CAC.heic" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="5712" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb07lssWJRONiQInZPl9gSN9j_LjaMIlrgQ9AkErBgPi9aWRUqWGsM4ooPUaTbeMMoci76wn6zeAb5cQoCugNkNr_Nr6DGe-7wRfpULTtg2YGLd0KMTZQo6hwJ94pTeAY-ACd-NdB268AlSjeIbL3jey0rVSLjk0kRFVaTYLecVt3hnTafr-tsgJfYizQ/w640-h480/D606E1D6-6206-4A09-AC6D-1E4981B06CAC.heic" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heidi's gift</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZap_vGZsrYzwNbf4zPkmNhxeim2sHmtJQvmVvFTdl5XcBvbbnW23d52K5PuwKpxdrxG3zdQVIJUX_CpmvfotW-GwpfD9ptHpcToN-RgXVecZVzh_kxwkHyikdxfRKbvsau7wGdDE__Cy6zYBccPIUNKXtpKeK9uJnL_IUXsSxj6C-ySQwzu_II2vwYdg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="473" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZap_vGZsrYzwNbf4zPkmNhxeim2sHmtJQvmVvFTdl5XcBvbbnW23d52K5PuwKpxdrxG3zdQVIJUX_CpmvfotW-GwpfD9ptHpcToN-RgXVecZVzh_kxwkHyikdxfRKbvsau7wGdDE__Cy6zYBccPIUNKXtpKeK9uJnL_IUXsSxj6C-ySQwzu_II2vwYdg=w640-h432" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I don't have a poem for every prompt...but I have some. Each prompt worked well with my time away to slow down and look--taking in sights, sounds, and, feelings more than my day-to-day speaking, teaching...and even complaining. Writing to these prompts was good for my soul.</span><p></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Returning Sun</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When our faces are hidden by winter clouds</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">we wear scarves, hats, and mittens</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We look for you in the dark sky</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We call out </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sun</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">return to us!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sun, return to</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sun, return</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sun</span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a71165f4-7fff-5df2-8b0d-a003bd094ee8"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Linda Mitchell 1/5/24</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Generosity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-12e9355b-7fff-ecaf-bc6f-1181ab2bbc17" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Seating with room to spare-</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">including a spot for you</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">on this crowded bus of the WORLD.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A smile for you and all</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">your friends – and theirs too.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Generosity has spare change</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to help anyone out in a pinch.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Generosity makes sure no one</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is left out or behind.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Generosity has an abundance of heart, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">space, things to share.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">All of this and more is generosity.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Linda Mitchell 1/5/24</span></span></p><div><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Home</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-5173204a-7fff-2882-8ad0-19eab62ebf41" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Where cats</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sleep in my favorite chair</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Home is where brewing coffee </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">scents the air
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Home is where my laptop</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sits on our kitchen table</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Home is where I am able</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to look out to pine trees</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">waving seasons in</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and sweeping seasons out.
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Home is where I sleep best</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">best when everyone I love</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is there.</span></p><p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Home is singing
</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">washing dishes
</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">after a close game of cribbage</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Home is</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reading before bed
</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and a kiss goodnight.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Linda Mitchell 1/5/24</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: large;">For more responses to Yuletide prompts visit:</span></span></div><div><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Margaret at <a href="https://reflectionsontheteche.com/" target="_blank">Reflections on the Teche</a>
Catherine at <a href="https://readingtothecore.com/" target="_blank">Reading to the Core</a></span></div><div><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Molly at <a href="https://nixthecomfortzone.com/" target="_blank">Nix the Comfort Zone</a>
Heidi at <a href="https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Juicy Little Universe</a>
Mary Lee at <a href="https://ayearofreading.org/" target="_blank">A(noth)er Year of Reading</a></span></div><div><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-91137614269877612942024-01-04T05:36:00.002-05:002024-01-04T05:36:21.145-05:00In 2024 my olw is WORLD<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Happy New Year 2024!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I hope everyone enjoyed a happy and safe Christmas, Yuletide, Hannukah, and Kwanzaa holidays. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, Margaret, at <a href="https://reflectionsontheteche.com/" target="_blank">Reflections on the Teche</a> for starting off our year of SLJ posts. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I've been excitedly waiting to share my <b>one little word</b> for 2024 with you all. I tentatively chose <b>WORLD </b>in November and it's hard to say if coincidence or confirmation bias that led to me choosing it for this next year. What do you think? </span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">My Journey to WORLD</span></h2><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Like so many, I'm sad about the state of affairs in so many parts of our <b>WORLD.</b> I've been journaling my thoughts and in November seriously considered making WORLD my olw '24</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">At work, I've been using 11x17 inch paper for student activities...the size of that paper inspired me to use some <b>WORLD </b>clip art and copy 30 (11x17) pages at a local Kinkos to make journals with. I made the first journal for myself using the oversized paper and pages from old atlases. I'm very satisfied with this journal size and theme</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">In December I stumbled across this quotation from Maggie Smith's poem, Written Deer. WORLD seemed to be speaking louder to me<br /><br /> </span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="goog_390296632"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2690" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-M53Oz_fkcrts9VEc6cNAZJkNYGB7IU1D12VAZ8psUTaempwOqzQW49D3kYA5gEubwCmBA8_7gEvQqaAuMO84fxKs_rnvzQVvxvuexc_fSLtYHCxIbP3VrfchU5o3jFYJn7FrEfQV1mz4xplxNgvJRoe4WeNIgxMPoBNc-8ojU4miod9NPSo3qOuHic/w640-h386/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-03%20at%205.27.27%20AM.png" width="640" /></span></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="goog_390296632"><img alt="" data-original-height="25" data-original-width="1490" height="5" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxf5Q1Hq4pRMxDVoo2Clfa0gUtwuXcuqyFampfqjqi96RK3c8ay5RVx4nb0x4QejS7v2Miwf82S16gGQNZQWS7TRDzLgxjzzPtdFAkwvBLWMZXbVkUrKhKKGrzyzPaPHeWWIZPEhxkzsd3hbRnikksZuL4tKX5dlkQ8X4IDSMJqe0nPgCBIW88Eq8il-8" width="320" /></a></span></div><a href="Press, Glass Poetry. “‘how Fragile It Is, the World-I Almost Wrote the Word but Caught Myself. Either One Could Be Erased.’maggie Smith, ‘Written Deer’Https://T.Co/Wvceoeitqt Pic.Twitter.Com/Ypalrzc8dm.” Twitter, Twitter, 8 June 2018, twitter.com/glass_poetry/status/1005134661855711232?lang=en. " target="_blank"><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Over Christmas Break, my husband and I traveled to Hamburg Germany for some time as tourists and time with German friends. After choosing a coffee cup from a selection on a tray, our friend explained to me that the iconic gate of Hamburg is known as, <i>the gate to the WORLD</i>.</span></li></ul></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoXbUZH_rMTri0KXGv_eVfPL9fEMswytF-wBa2IchlSdAPkYarTYPOxj91oFdYeEHnyU6W3svICIDDbCpzlzofcf054kN0-G_6Jj7rRm5LxWIx7lB35_yvjDyS8nTkhz9OBZY1jDdxTONMVXQIu7-7gquFQlTbex1ux4i-L0pkkwzk8QWekliTJJfh3E/s2193/98868BAE-0B9A-4866-B064-9C1E20CC9C44.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2193" data-original-width="1645" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoXbUZH_rMTri0KXGv_eVfPL9fEMswytF-wBa2IchlSdAPkYarTYPOxj91oFdYeEHnyU6W3svICIDDbCpzlzofcf054kN0-G_6Jj7rRm5LxWIx7lB35_yvjDyS8nTkhz9OBZY1jDdxTONMVXQIu7-7gquFQlTbex1ux4i-L0pkkwzk8QWekliTJJfh3E/s320/98868BAE-0B9A-4866-B064-9C1E20CC9C44.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><br /></div><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">I was also drawn to these books in our friend's very impressive library. By now hook, line, and sinker WORLD had caught me. What could I do but give in to a year of <b>WORLD</b> focus, reflection, and writing?<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkvGAZYE7VvaxDxOxfXSfvHnpeqFP8NkNw6cNkfR8ulqHPpm6wkuSrNdxSyqYLa8_C7rZBK1ZKYv1J1iLcut-xDabKfO6oPzuvlbvaCSaQOXvhPClgWePvWdQOyXm2_9OmlCYU1KPUq7FrR2i3L2bjz98EuYLwIAEJVhgaZDk85znUValwW8wL5BNbavU/s4032/3242CB9A-B49B-4634-9E1B-CAFEB31D24D2.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkvGAZYE7VvaxDxOxfXSfvHnpeqFP8NkNw6cNkfR8ulqHPpm6wkuSrNdxSyqYLa8_C7rZBK1ZKYv1J1iLcut-xDabKfO6oPzuvlbvaCSaQOXvhPClgWePvWdQOyXm2_9OmlCYU1KPUq7FrR2i3L2bjz98EuYLwIAEJVhgaZDk85znUValwW8wL5BNbavU/s320/3242CB9A-B49B-4634-9E1B-CAFEB31D24D2.heic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;">So what do you think? Confirmation bias? Coincidence? Devine suggestion? No matter which path led me to WORLD, we are happily making friends and dreaming big dreams together for this next year. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I have made a <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/2024-world-ivf6ca0h9vp0flmq/wish/2837646745" target="_blank">padlet </a>for a WORD poem for each week of 2024.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><br /></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-5647003427479540752023-12-21T22:49:00.001-05:002023-12-21T22:49:39.683-05:00Celebrate!<p><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, my goodness...WORD and I are sitting with feet up enjoying a cozy cuppa as we wind down the final days of 2023.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">There is never enough writing time or time to think about writing. This year was no exception. But, we've done what we could.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am delighted to share gifts received from <a href="https://theapplesinmyorchard.com/" target="_blank">Carol Labuzzetta</a> in our recent Winter Poetry Swap. Thank you, <a href="https://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tabatha</a>, for keeping this tradition. I so appreciate your organization of this annual event.<br /><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-UU99HB1RHbo6EVGEjDZLjbLgtitND4ovLdgQVhYfdQk9Y86HXKVHcYMJR0gOHSoiUXPtTBJ05e_pUFR3q4tsTaM97m303htaBRPZIYr8Ev_00rcfUhQU3cpHpWR24lvxHNstGeDd_pCY4ZrMaXdVd9xzEblluJHLD8x__EBqbVIIS0JVXJ40KDTzbeQ/s5712/IMG_3899.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="5712" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-UU99HB1RHbo6EVGEjDZLjbLgtitND4ovLdgQVhYfdQk9Y86HXKVHcYMJR0gOHSoiUXPtTBJ05e_pUFR3q4tsTaM97m303htaBRPZIYr8Ev_00rcfUhQU3cpHpWR24lvxHNstGeDd_pCY4ZrMaXdVd9xzEblluJHLD8x__EBqbVIIS0JVXJ40KDTzbeQ/w640-h480/IMG_3899.HEIC" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty, pretty jewelry from Carol looks nice with my winter scarf & mittens</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTxYIOrL1AFCkqB7iNNm7GFFZdTaQsSdunq8yeUOMOZSYhJ34GZusmGpUMuZPrgrN8NgGfys2KixWEzBVF7wuUa5YS78sH0beN2AL-RvHj9OkAsZRkNZzF19BJvBneAf7wFUjd6TskkelHizJ3sUw9AilDWMFLn5H6sRWs0O7UrqZwGVMDfiA9wMhisA/s5712/IMG_3900.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTxYIOrL1AFCkqB7iNNm7GFFZdTaQsSdunq8yeUOMOZSYhJ34GZusmGpUMuZPrgrN8NgGfys2KixWEzBVF7wuUa5YS78sH0beN2AL-RvHj9OkAsZRkNZzF19BJvBneAf7wFUjd6TskkelHizJ3sUw9AilDWMFLn5H6sRWs0O7UrqZwGVMDfiA9wMhisA/w480-h640/IMG_3900.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What a beautiful poem...if I can live up to these words in 2024<br />I will be satisfied. Carol inspires me --her jewelry matches the poem!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Isn't Carol's handmade jewelry exquisite? Her time, attention to detail, and word choice are much, much appreciated. I am always glad for a mentor text that I see in this poem. Thank you, Carol. I enjoy the sparkly necklace, earrings, and poem immensely.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Next Friday, I'll be traveling. I'll probably skip posting. However, I have WORD #51 and #52 on the <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/word-bwfgg0bqmjhf62fd" target="_blank">padlet</a>. It has been quite a journey for WORD and me. We began 2023 as strangers but are now besties.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">WORD has given me permission to let go and choose a new O-L-W for 2024. I'll introduce it in early January. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For now, poetry friends, thank you for your friendship. Thank you for all the beautiful words of 2023. Keep healthy, safe, and strong until we meet in 2024.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, <a href="https://www.jonerushmacculloch.com/" target="_blank">Jone</a>, for hosting our Poetry Friday round-up this weekend. </span></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-44957078934928601522023-12-14T20:18:00.003-05:002023-12-14T20:18:33.295-05:00Cento...or mash-up<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Hello Poetry People,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">My goodness...what a week! I came out of the Covid-cave because the CDC (thus my employer) says that after six days, you return to work. Ta-da! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">However, I've been pretty pooped.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank goodness my family has been taking care of me and don't mind when I go to bed at 5:30 in the afternoon. I'm fine...getting better every day and very thankful for the wonders of Paxlovid. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This was a perfect time to play with form ala Susan at <a href="https://fresh.inlinkz.com/iframe/blog?u=b73ec258979d4a59a70343e3f91424d3" target="_blank">Chicken Spaghetti</a>. Last week, she alternated lines from Seuss' <i>One Fish, Two Fish</i> and, a <i>Shakespeare Sonnet</i>. Her work and the idea hit me just right. I loved it! I started playing around with different poems for mash-ups. I think, technically, these poems are centos. But, mash-up sounds better to me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I'm sharing two...just because I can't choose which one I like more. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4usrUnBhabLfqGcwTRBxMWTw9uW0VQVgoHLPT09AQi6dNgS-4ghfnkUmLCb_TDcHmJDkJZ5lHGbmPhH9wHmvx73RnfhWUHSKJHlHl0f82rXohhv28wELowv8zLAzf6ho-BLGAFi6rOph-Ju4_wjIgERZow6RxoR5nAUK8J2nOTtb3sE2gYAGqEcedS68/s1932/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-14%20at%207.58.49%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="1932" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4usrUnBhabLfqGcwTRBxMWTw9uW0VQVgoHLPT09AQi6dNgS-4ghfnkUmLCb_TDcHmJDkJZ5lHGbmPhH9wHmvx73RnfhWUHSKJHlHl0f82rXohhv28wELowv8zLAzf6ho-BLGAFi6rOph-Ju4_wjIgERZow6RxoR5nAUK8J2nOTtb3sE2gYAGqEcedS68/w640-h434/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-14%20at%207.58.49%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiM-5MBmpqCHACAcOSmiX3XbiKBxKJM47ImHwzIpFNSd6axyYQeVJMMNHv4qFbHywIOK9MbRHwmL9-CMK4sjbgz_EBSiUn8PmMwxx-Q5HFYb0FPWu3lM-MFtEIKYWsUD3FhATdkS8XzE8LuT4id20heyltEAFxRALQUKLNYhsI1MYC9upqUCfUTHwnC1c/s1486/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-14%20at%208.06.25%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1486" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiM-5MBmpqCHACAcOSmiX3XbiKBxKJM47ImHwzIpFNSd6axyYQeVJMMNHv4qFbHywIOK9MbRHwmL9-CMK4sjbgz_EBSiUn8PmMwxx-Q5HFYb0FPWu3lM-MFtEIKYWsUD3FhATdkS8XzE8LuT4id20heyltEAFxRALQUKLNYhsI1MYC9upqUCfUTHwnC1c/w640-h444/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-14%20at%208.06.25%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Word and I have been playing with Elfchen's...practice #2 is on the <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/word-bwfgg0bqmjhf62fd/wish/2825802119" target="_blank">padlet</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, Janice Scully, for hosting the round-up this week at <a href="https://janicescully.com/poetry-friday-is-here-christmas-haiku-and-slippers/" target="_blank">Salt City Verse.</a></span></p><p><br /></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-31175272260344812662023-12-07T15:34:00.009-05:002023-12-08T08:07:52.683-05:00Light and Dark<p><span style="font-size: large;">Greetings Spiritual Thursday Writers and Poetry Friday Friends,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, <a href="https://www.jonerushmacculloch.com/" target="_blank">Jone McCullough</a> for the wonderful prompt, <i>Dark and Light</i>. She's managing some tragic news unexpectedly. And, thank you Patricia for a rich Poetry Friday poem and post. You inspire me at <a href="https://patriciajfranz.com/blog-all-i-want-for-christmas-is/" target="_blank">Reverie</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I have a dark and light experience going on right now. I'm in bed with a case of covid. YUCK! But, my family just adopted two adorable kitten brothers that are keeping my spirits up. This is after our last cat was suffering more bad days than good and was put to sleep just after Thanksgiving.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Life comes fast and furious sometimes. These drafty draft poems are event-specific from where I am isolating. I might work them into something later. For now, they are the Light and Dark of me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Light and Dark</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dark is war</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rumors of war</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bits of shrapnel</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bomb dust everywhere.
</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">A December day</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">weighing Autumn’s coin</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">against Winter’s bill </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">now due.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dark is an airport terminal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of canceled flights.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>No arrival tonight.
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Dark is seawater filling tunnels.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Death erasing life.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grief gushing in.
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Each reading eye</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">picks up shards</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">of dark</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">both dull and sharp again.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to spend</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dark currency?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If only I could buy light</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to drive away this fear</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">before we all fall asleep.
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Light is scent</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of cookies baking.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or, Kittens snuggled</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at my side.
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Light is a gift of</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">handknit socks</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">perfect on my feet.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Light is a December smile.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secrets without long</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to wait.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Candles lit and glowing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">overcoming grief with cheer.
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Sounds of carolers</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">singing in the street</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">laughing off forgotten words</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">still keeping up a beat.
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Light is as</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Snowflakes,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wishes,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peace.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peace finding everyone,</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">finding everyone before</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we fall asleep.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Drafty-draft Linda Mitchell 12/8/23</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I'm practicing <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/word-bwfgg0bqmjhf62fd/wish/2817916024" target="_blank">elfchens</a> based on the Poetry Pals December invitation. There's one on Word's padlet.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7EwREWfC6iNxOChKgTE8Uty5NKPEM6ldxTkeYQbXpjHj3OKPdFFKXDnx4Tj4j_MBsLVReLrHoY2PMekCG6yXz7RnVKxj2157va9-zAvMmFMjfiywtoj-YiWpWtE6ooCgePrL0L_0QG_UqoEAkLyLA-PncVI6AkSou4fVUS5UZimzZ42JMpLd5kLxSylc/s2900/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-07%20at%203.27.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1484" data-original-width="2900" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7EwREWfC6iNxOChKgTE8Uty5NKPEM6ldxTkeYQbXpjHj3OKPdFFKXDnx4Tj4j_MBsLVReLrHoY2PMekCG6yXz7RnVKxj2157va9-zAvMmFMjfiywtoj-YiWpWtE6ooCgePrL0L_0QG_UqoEAkLyLA-PncVI6AkSou4fVUS5UZimzZ42JMpLd5kLxSylc/w640-h328/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-07%20at%203.27.03%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-3193641786863982272023-11-30T20:34:00.000-05:002023-11-30T20:34:09.019-05:00Welcome December<p><span style="font-size: large;">Hello Poets,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It's December -- Wow! How did that happen so fast?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Inklings challenge this month comes from Molly. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvHAj2jU9ciQViIybLnBa4oN7CWk7gH3tnUUUxCQ8udn29t4yO_dnLqLZlukgLn0EkSAD2Vxua3Dm3U-YkUD6EozR2zvXI1k21dZD1l60d-vupDOLPEEttTR9MEvNpk28S0CPNsiEpjJqNcjSWtSfBam82-LEUCF8RcwyFAHNT_TOEZfqF5xPG9jfTa8/s1218/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-26%20at%208.02.19%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="1044" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvHAj2jU9ciQViIybLnBa4oN7CWk7gH3tnUUUxCQ8udn29t4yO_dnLqLZlukgLn0EkSAD2Vxua3Dm3U-YkUD6EozR2zvXI1k21dZD1l60d-vupDOLPEEttTR9MEvNpk28S0CPNsiEpjJqNcjSWtSfBam82-LEUCF8RcwyFAHNT_TOEZfqF5xPG9jfTa8/w343-h400/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-26%20at%208.02.19%20AM.png" width="343" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">luc bat <br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">I found rhyming before the end of a line a challenge. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Luc bat for December</b></span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-0fd475c4-7fff-4f16-707e-a414ec2801b8" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Good morning December</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">your pink cheeks—holly berry bright</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in weakened winter’s light.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Welcome, won’t you step right inside?</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You’re in time for Yuletide</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cheer and toasting beside our tree</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Please stay a while with me--</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">friends by the fire, cozy and warm.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Linda Mitchell
12/1</span></span></p><div><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Word and I stumbled across a teeny poem in a book I was weeding from my library. It's on the padlet. </span></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Check out some more luc bat poems from our Inkling friends.</span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://reflectionsontheteche.com/" target="_blank">Margaret</a>
<a href="https://readingtothecore.com/" target="_blank">Catherine</a>
<a href="https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Heidi</a>
<a href="https://nixthecomfortzone.com/" target="_blank">Molly</a></span></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://ayearofreading.org/" target="_blank">Mary Lee</a></span></span></div>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-44031766346294065772023-11-23T06:57:00.001-05:002023-11-23T06:57:03.945-05:00Happy Thanksgiving<p><span style="font-size: large;">Poets,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I'm grateful to this community of writers and readers. I always want to write much more than I do. Life has a way of keeping that from happening. But, Poetry Friday gives me a weekly goal of writing something worth sharing...even if only in draft form. It is a good habit and I thank you for being my accountability partner.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our friend, <a href="https://thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ruth</a>, is hosting this week's round-up from her far away corner of the world. I'm thankful for that. This long weekend has been important for me to catch up on many things.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Last week, Ruth asked us to consider surprises.</span></p><p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjH2-cpmp0VWA9yeIwTWGz4_FqnaqxdDX4ErICVHsVfKgYyWJ88UOoAgCc0dcfkO-Y96EuJnCMx7kYtTse2LUTgOJSCMUxjXCemjlqwIS4rY0cAjRsxJIoGGVQUxwg67LUVaNnznp6rvwTj7fWjYAAw1_K9EFcGrx6z0Z8PgrNnZlg7isb5sFSWjYRbv8M" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="82" data-original-width="207" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjH2-cpmp0VWA9yeIwTWGz4_FqnaqxdDX4ErICVHsVfKgYyWJ88UOoAgCc0dcfkO-Y96EuJnCMx7kYtTse2LUTgOJSCMUxjXCemjlqwIS4rY0cAjRsxJIoGGVQUxwg67LUVaNnznp6rvwTj7fWjYAAw1_K9EFcGrx6z0Z8PgrNnZlg7isb5sFSWjYRbv8M" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linda Mitchell 11.25.23<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>No Surprise Triolet</b></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisRrt2k7K43px_mgNJ-Ksl9UPibm5zd3ai5T-0XN-rQZ6q2DjcO9IqfhjcvTT9eXgj7G-s0pujD0rOtfGbsHKV48WT73kGzlK0z0bjuIMKUJaXjVrstg5zLNfZoHpgrev2dAuvqOh1sX2mVwEgOnqTeHVugqmQddD-DwjiLBpG3IqkzMI1xOox2sKlGic" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="399" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisRrt2k7K43px_mgNJ-Ksl9UPibm5zd3ai5T-0XN-rQZ6q2DjcO9IqfhjcvTT9eXgj7G-s0pujD0rOtfGbsHKV48WT73kGzlK0z0bjuIMKUJaXjVrstg5zLNfZoHpgrev2dAuvqOh1sX2mVwEgOnqTeHVugqmQddD-DwjiLBpG3IqkzMI1xOox2sKlGic=w640-h304" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linda Mitchell 11.25.23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The word on Word's <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/word-bwfgg0bqmjhf62fd/wish/2800610055" target="_blank">padlet </a>is <i>now</i>...simple, small, and, sincere.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9puE0Re0YOXJ276ce7HB_UAHhqQMT0A-qVUxbkbGFYLU-JtViRNg6wmVpJORSL-RvlphwlzE1VDX2fTFXjLbEeLRep6awoRwX_u5_pvFsT2MQT83hOFttT27aEttatK246draYxPSNns_bRdFiOYg7OOFOCwIcM4Fktt_3NvAhkeJ2ywcudy5OhHFhmY/s5122/MapleRed23.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5122" data-original-width="3739" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9puE0Re0YOXJ276ce7HB_UAHhqQMT0A-qVUxbkbGFYLU-JtViRNg6wmVpJORSL-RvlphwlzE1VDX2fTFXjLbEeLRep6awoRwX_u5_pvFsT2MQT83hOFttT27aEttatK246draYxPSNns_bRdFiOYg7OOFOCwIcM4Fktt_3NvAhkeJ2ywcudy5OhHFhmY/w468-h640/MapleRed23.heic" width="468" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy Thanksgiving 2023</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-41363851079600022232023-11-16T17:54:00.000-05:002023-11-16T17:54:45.361-05:00Folktale Week Poetry<p><span style="font-size: large;">How is Folktale Week going for you?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I've been squeezing time into life outside of work to read and think about fairy tales. I've enjoyed some old tales from this book in the public domain.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhGPZh4C4DJfZS0Q96gkQCUkSaSWIgFVIKiKMfC_TtRGeyEe-rt0zaaE5UCUphBpUQRA_RlToUzfxpYKn-XNWESVVfa9C-8k_Mcd-Jn_6kY1OUw1piOcOGqecS-49Gac1OyX5S8nPr4GOd2t2UR7ZPSbKnOrgz3SMHCTPyY5Yfq4UDEh6fEOlLSuBYSc/s1998/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%205.14.39%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1396" data-original-width="1998" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhGPZh4C4DJfZS0Q96gkQCUkSaSWIgFVIKiKMfC_TtRGeyEe-rt0zaaE5UCUphBpUQRA_RlToUzfxpYKn-XNWESVVfa9C-8k_Mcd-Jn_6kY1OUw1piOcOGqecS-49Gac1OyX5S8nPr4GOd2t2UR7ZPSbKnOrgz3SMHCTPyY5Yfq4UDEh6fEOlLSuBYSc/w640-h448/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%205.14.39%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/old-french-fairytales-illustrated-by-virginia-frances-sterrett-1920/</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">Why do we humans love fairytales so much? <a href="https://childrenspoetrysummit.com/2023/11/16/zaro-weil-a-few-thoughts-on-storytelling-and-poetry/" target="_blank">Poet Zaro Weils</a> says,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"For a well-told tale is the universal expression of imaginative communication, something which we humans = the great species of communicators - not just need, but are compelled to share...what greater goal can there be than to attract our young charges into a universe where we can sit together around the fire...lighting up ideas."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I love how shorter days and cooler nights nudge me to turn inward. These old stories are good company.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Some pantoum play from my Folk Tale Week morning writes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLw17GnUcd-FKSEQ0uzWsPugjsYBmuCzkkFSJuzJzSXnXBUKD3SFbRCBLVFCtw0V0676MX4egmnUXf7IPnpcEwZ41E9K2NXL7UZ28MD9ujNTH3mqdUA5nD3wrHnoizcy2tBii9UHqENcBrfXtpcE57QXxWp1bsuh6D9JnHwJuKoGcTSO2Ws6GUJwtq2J0" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="398" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLw17GnUcd-FKSEQ0uzWsPugjsYBmuCzkkFSJuzJzSXnXBUKD3SFbRCBLVFCtw0V0676MX4egmnUXf7IPnpcEwZ41E9K2NXL7UZ28MD9ujNTH3mqdUA5nD3wrHnoizcy2tBii9UHqENcBrfXtpcE57QXxWp1bsuh6D9JnHwJuKoGcTSO2Ws6GUJwtq2J0=w544-h640" width="544" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Folktale Week '23</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br />I posted another poem from this week on <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/word-bwfgg0bqmjhf62fd/wish/2792240851" target="_blank">Word's padlet</a>. Word and I are in talks over what my O-L-W for 2024 should be. There are several possibilities. Word is an expert. I'm listening.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Irene Latham is hosting our round-up this week on her blog, <a href="https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Live Your Poem</a>. Don't miss stopping by her post for lots of poetry goodness.<br /></span><br /></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-40955807486924384492023-11-09T20:03:00.002-05:002023-11-10T07:26:17.592-05:00Folktale Week is Coming<p><span style="font-size: large;">Hello Poets,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I hope US friends can find a veteran to salute in some way today. I'm grateful that on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 nations of our world chose peace over war. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqnEJliVs4Ni0bky0PVGuDfcdmi98m_PpoMWOz5wkXFCXCMYRJsM1lO5hJe1UwnUHw8jTKZX1Ax5Xc1uSYMJ7-vW4LTZesc2lJZKTaB9zzIe57YHU4AcnJwH4mBae1Sd8BDsuYrSUYbovbz433bFBbGRy8zIGGSCjVuLi0nd8uiKQUgM60VqG2cmIXk4I/s1080/FoktaleWeekPoster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="860" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqnEJliVs4Ni0bky0PVGuDfcdmi98m_PpoMWOz5wkXFCXCMYRJsM1lO5hJe1UwnUHw8jTKZX1Ax5Xc1uSYMJ7-vW4LTZesc2lJZKTaB9zzIe57YHU4AcnJwH4mBae1Sd8BDsuYrSUYbovbz433bFBbGRy8zIGGSCjVuLi0nd8uiKQUgM60VqG2cmIXk4I/w510-h640/FoktaleWeekPoster.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Next week, November 13 - 19th is <a href="https://www.instagram.com/folktaleweek/" target="_blank">Folktale Week</a>. This is a week of prompts presented to artists around the globe to respond to. Although Folktale Week began with illustrators, artists of all forms and formats are invited to participate.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This year's prompts are...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Lost<br />Ink<br />Sea<br />Sleep<br />Underground<br />Illusion<br />Found</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I'm hoping to have some fun with these words over the next week. Maybe you'll join in too?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I was poking around for fairytale poems and found a poem inside this poem by Edith Weaver.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lost Cinderella</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Edith Weaver</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Little</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> rich girl, with </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bells</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> come running lightly as</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the fawn of the fairytales</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> treading </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on musical leaves</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">;</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">come running through the precious path</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the hypnotic forest</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> where nothing dares fall into a clutter of death</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> till you are past,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">where the wind stands straight as an elm</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">offer fringed shelter</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pale </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blossoms</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> smile through an atmosphere</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> glossy as water.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The wolves and the witches will not deign</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to lift their muzzles</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from counting a spoil of screaming bone</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">taste</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a tinkerbell</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and your fortunate body has no skeleton</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but cakes and perfume</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that wrinkles the noses of neighboring children</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> who do not know you</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but primly wait in </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">t</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he summerhouse</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the promised party</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">side by side</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a council of solemn dolls</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> who try you in </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">memory</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-6ce29d0b-7fff-059e-4687-e65d966e9d98"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Do you see the pink highlighted words of a poem I found inside Weaver's poem? It's a great way to get into the vibe of Folktale Week.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, <a href="https://karenedmisten.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Karen Edminsten</a>, for hosting this week's round-up. I've caught up with Word's<a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/word-bwfgg0bqmjhf62fd/wish/2784136539" target="_blank"> padlet</a>. Still on track for 52 word poems in 2023.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaUGfSxVvUhx-yh4X0RxIVSPPk1_PMPFz5K0QvHGKk0fPdBdYDSJ7aUfdLDHQ7QN1c2V2JUIYwLro9tXsmKdgfuhaPxMCQ-_08_e5L0o3cfElhoN5ZiFUCyB1yEgxu40TubQlsNqgjUPql2xhrq4Pa06HeRiqbkp5uLElfPUuiS6WIWgzLRfp8Th-V1jk/s1024/RedRidingHood.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="566" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaUGfSxVvUhx-yh4X0RxIVSPPk1_PMPFz5K0QvHGKk0fPdBdYDSJ7aUfdLDHQ7QN1c2V2JUIYwLro9tXsmKdgfuhaPxMCQ-_08_e5L0o3cfElhoN5ZiFUCyB1yEgxu40TubQlsNqgjUPql2xhrq4Pa06HeRiqbkp5uLElfPUuiS6WIWgzLRfp8Th-V1jk/w354-h640/RedRidingHood.jpeg" width="354" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><cite style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #242424; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -28px;">Little Red Riding Hood</cite><span face=""Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #242424; text-align: start; text-indent: -28px;">. [United States: publisher not transcribed] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018695236/>.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-80715102595558623522023-11-01T06:03:00.001-04:002023-11-01T06:03:21.026-04:00SJT & PF & VAASL<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Alphabet Soup Anyone?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Maybe. This post is serving double duty for Spiritual Journey Thursday (SJT) and Poetry Friday (PF). I'll be away from writing --at the Virginia Association of School Librarians (VAASL) when you read this. <br /><br />School librarians are good people. Like busy professionals in many areas, they're juggling a lot more than the basics these days. M</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">y annual state conference is a place of renewal. I slow down to listen to my colleagues and discuss what's going on in my professional life. I gain energy for the work by attending.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I try to give back as well. I've chaired the signage committee for a few years. This year, I'm in charge of bringing the snacks for Thursday's 'Snack Break with Vendors.' Raising four kids prepared me to buy snacks for hundreds. lol. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEih-IHJjmQI1KMSuQbZbkbupuZd7mgkuaRzK0y8dU_VJHJLYzhZlZBIxJxMpK77Hj76gsedLoozE41YBwwS-4rrpINobBAoLSCCy7YGEeimrVMSR12NTl91FQ8SR2NoFG6kbkP7eRcyypDreHBikRCy6uN9zuvNgX8cYPn7ULZFxveb2GYDDpM0poA03rQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3094" data-original-width="2023" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEih-IHJjmQI1KMSuQbZbkbupuZd7mgkuaRzK0y8dU_VJHJLYzhZlZBIxJxMpK77Hj76gsedLoozE41YBwwS-4rrpINobBAoLSCCy7YGEeimrVMSR12NTl91FQ8SR2NoFG6kbkP7eRcyypDreHBikRCy6uN9zuvNgX8cYPn7ULZFxveb2GYDDpM0poA03rQ=w419-h640" width="419" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Just waiting on the Ritz Bitz! (Please ignore hubby's side of the garage in the background)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a214449-7fff-4baa-214f-cafdf6180bac"><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Can you believe it's November already! This month is my turn to challenge the Inklings with a poem prompt. </span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Write a prose piece–find a poem in it.</span></b></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Or, write a poem, and expand it into a prose piece</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Or, find a prose piece, transform it into a poem</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Or, find a poem and transpose it into a prose piece</span></span></li><li><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Any interpretation of this prompt is perfect</span></span></li><li><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Going rogue is acceptable too</span></span></li><li><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If you end up writing longer than a page of prose, share just a snippet</span></span></li></ul><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a214449-7fff-4baa-214f-cafdf6180bac"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">I didn't intend to write a poem that also had to do with Spiritual Journey Thursday. Frankly, I'm pressed for time (see above) and was looking for a quick and easy poem to post. Mary Lee recently shared a <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/forming-form" target="_blank">super cool prompt</a> she got from Padrig O'Touma's blog. I thought I'd give it a try. By the time I was finished, I realized that this routine renews me each day. I need time to write, time to poem to feel whole and healthy.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ordinary Meditation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-97237aaf-7fff-00af-13e9-c0ea69c6eefa"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Waking before the alarm</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">my cat walks me to the kitchen</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Every morning it’s the same</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">before the sun has risen </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My cat walks me to the kitchen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">our table is Peace Island</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Before the sun has risen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’ve been waiting in my sleep for this </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Our table is Peace Island</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">purring cat and tapping keys</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’ve been waiting in my sleep for this</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">each cell in every nerve at ease</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Purring cat and tapping keys</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Every morning it’s the same</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">each cell in every nerve at ease</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">waking before the alarm</span></p><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Linda Mitchell, November 2023</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">The prose inspiration for this poem came from journal writing:</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzFyMaexT12gifgXtMOQvhBGxTBo2940AXQ68xxoo5nA9R9F5Lndht8Aqb2X89ap25DjX0cwfv73cGoFGrNLr0W-ukeEC8vS4WmtEyUUuRk4EJVv_xlCNLVVc8l3e7wI1plvP7faEd3fuPseFyhW0o9ZmB1KK6eKc5mEfipzXT2jtPjekvj0t2ly8kEIU/s1482/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-30%20at%205.58.50%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="1482" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzFyMaexT12gifgXtMOQvhBGxTBo2940AXQ68xxoo5nA9R9F5Lndht8Aqb2X89ap25DjX0cwfv73cGoFGrNLr0W-ukeEC8vS4WmtEyUUuRk4EJVv_xlCNLVVc8l3e7wI1plvP7faEd3fuPseFyhW0o9ZmB1KK6eKc5mEfipzXT2jtPjekvj0t2ly8kEIU/w640-h300/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-30%20at%205.58.50%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: collapse;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Read more Inkling takes on this prompt at:
<a href="https://reflectionsontheteche.com/" target="_blank">Reflections on the Teche</a>
<a href="https://readingtothecore.com/" target="_blank">Reading to the Core</a>
<a href="https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Juicy Little Universe</a>
<a href="https://nixthecomfortzone.com/" target="_blank">Nix the Comfort Zone</a>
<a href="https://ayearofreading.org/" target="_blank">A(noth)er Year of Reading</a></span></span></span></p><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Poet-author <a href="https://buffysilverman.com/blog/" target="_blank">Buffy Silverman</a> is hosting our round-up this weekend. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I'll catch up with posts (and Word's padlet) as I can after my conference...thanks for reading and stay as safe as you can out there. The world feels a bit dangerous these days. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br /></div></span></span></span></div></span>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-39268805089842501712023-10-26T18:02:00.000-04:002023-10-26T18:02:25.700-04:00Giant Artist's Date<p><span style="font-size: large;">Friday Poets, I've missed you!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I've been elbow-deep in a gathering of school librarians from all 50 states and US Territories in Tampa, Florida for the American Association of School Librarians Conference. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In addition to a tremendous amount of information related to <i>how to library</i> with kids these days, there were many encounters with art and creativity.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I started out at the Tampa Art Museum. If you ever have a chance to visit, do! It's not huge, you can cover a lot of amazing art throughout a wide span of history in a few hours. Of course, I was drawn to art that had words embedded in it.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFraoGIhRk0qaRX4rSBzBTovCAYrW7ziD2AmIFqdCEK6q71nQXL9OycK9mwkl_SdOGT5-qPQF5Bz-NeFcF2JCIvG0UTWlaY0rIQruVTV3bRXvbB5mVR4_3FlXOYuwRSVSDHdalECOwgRPcjaEv1D0nNc4b1YCyokDoB2bqDBXC66wIj9JAsZAfL4a6vnc/s2556/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-25%20at%207.33.35%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1396" data-original-width="2556" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFraoGIhRk0qaRX4rSBzBTovCAYrW7ziD2AmIFqdCEK6q71nQXL9OycK9mwkl_SdOGT5-qPQF5Bz-NeFcF2JCIvG0UTWlaY0rIQruVTV3bRXvbB5mVR4_3FlXOYuwRSVSDHdalECOwgRPcjaEv1D0nNc4b1YCyokDoB2bqDBXC66wIj9JAsZAfL4a6vnc/w640-h350/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-25%20at%207.33.35%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">In homage to his home</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">His signature, </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Love,</i><span style="font-size: large;"> is</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">stars, numbers, and stenciled letters.</span><br /><i style="font-size: x-large;">Yield Brother</i><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">his call for civility</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">recognized as a peace sign.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">words found by Linda Mitchell Oct '23</span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Back at the conference center, illustrator Nikkolas Smith shared his inspirational message, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"You can be an ally by making art with those that need an ally." <br /><br />Indeed, Mr. Smith is an ally of kids with books that bring children into a world of creativity and beauty.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPtNs9-G1efWr9xXchd4HR9vkW7hsbPrMomdcn92q67f7AGxNW3Ar07Kcab_deWDRYYDiqygVK_3MsdwxWD9mHPfKwkeOuw0nC2By9ejtfDPIMKs8z4WMtPGA4GtR9NmIvYvXt-E5DWPY0a68c5VN5na4VroH51RFLIHt04TsUkhaQ49ijYR6XmJ2101s" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="2500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPtNs9-G1efWr9xXchd4HR9vkW7hsbPrMomdcn92q67f7AGxNW3Ar07Kcab_deWDRYYDiqygVK_3MsdwxWD9mHPfKwkeOuw0nC2By9ejtfDPIMKs8z4WMtPGA4GtR9NmIvYvXt-E5DWPY0a68c5VN5na4VroH51RFLIHt04TsUkhaQ49ijYR6XmJ2101s=w640-h320" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Smith also shared an artivist prompt: Think about how you would complete this sentence: </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"When I was ten years old, I made art of...." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Gosh, when I was ten...I arranged bookshelves in my room in all kinds of ways...which I am still doing. How about that?!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Finally, my favorite speaker was Nic Stone, author of many tremendous middle-grade books. Years ago, she submitted a manuscript. The editor at that time said that although they liked the manuscript, they couldn't sell it. Then asked, <i>do you have anything else</i>? Like a good author, she said, <i>yes</i>...and half a day of intense-writing later, submitted the first part of her debut novel. <i>Dear Martin. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikWgBZRzeE-0hj88VLUMRmTKhz7r-_INZiaYm8xXJZiIEuMvKcDGy3AjsDz_mhZA5Eei_PyAQchbPsdeCYXKNjfmM1P5XvgJBsJIw3y9CL4d8CRCMRTmAt1ESxnm7MPLU3r-2cE3DIcsgssFKC2FlV6ohyphenhyphenROCm4tJcskfE9dpFgI_1Ne3pCBvHlJruW8I/s400/DearMartin.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="400" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikWgBZRzeE-0hj88VLUMRmTKhz7r-_INZiaYm8xXJZiIEuMvKcDGy3AjsDz_mhZA5Eei_PyAQchbPsdeCYXKNjfmM1P5XvgJBsJIw3y9CL4d8CRCMRTmAt1ESxnm7MPLU3r-2cE3DIcsgssFKC2FlV6ohyphenhyphenROCm4tJcskfE9dpFgI_1Ne3pCBvHlJruW8I/w400-h272/DearMartin.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ember Press. 2018</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><i><br /></i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Now, Stone is seeing that first manuscript coming out in 2024. It's about mental health...and I can't wait to read it. Her creative prompt to us all was to describe the difference between nonfiction and fiction with one, two-letter word, <i>if</i>. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">She sees nonfiction as what <i>is</i>. Fiction is what <i>if</i>? Stone went on to illustrate this difference with stories from her life and finished by asking her audience to think about our <i>what if</i>? I'm still daydreaming about my if...what's yours?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">For Nic Stone</span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-e979c517-7fff-90bd-7e07-f204fd5a7a06" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This is a story of what is:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">war, floods, fire, death.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What if</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">we</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">rewrite the words?</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What if</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">we</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">write peace, health, life?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What if</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>we</b></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">…</span></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Linda Mitchell</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">10/27/23</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Truly, this is a thumbnail catch-up of AASL. There was much, much more. But, I wanted to share a little bit.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Look! I found our friend Buffy Silverman's book in the wild...OK, the exhibit hall. It's truly beautiful, Buffy. I'm proud of you.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1jOmATrTZkkfg1sVab-odwUdA84qBkR9sdIEUWVLkmOt8qP-FARk2-IVNDfT7NAk3b-TfltutTFATPFKKjni7RokS1izWiKj2LVUynby5y499mbmzR6uDGU_p3YYHFH-Kv7j1l0uZIfolJPVKeu14yVHpJCzokjq-g3vESiGNYACIEMaawFjiow_AEw/s330/FlakeFlyingDay23.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="282" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1jOmATrTZkkfg1sVab-odwUdA84qBkR9sdIEUWVLkmOt8qP-FARk2-IVNDfT7NAk3b-TfltutTFATPFKKjni7RokS1izWiKj2LVUynby5y499mbmzR6uDGU_p3YYHFH-Kv7j1l0uZIfolJPVKeu14yVHpJCzokjq-g3vESiGNYACIEMaawFjiow_AEw/w546-h640/FlakeFlyingDay23.jpg" width="546" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: large;">Now, I'm preparing for my STATE conference starting November 1st. No rest for the weary! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, Carol, for hosting our round-up this week at <a href="https://theapplesinmyorchard.com/home/" target="_blank">The Apples in My Orchard.</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-15158728598137247142023-10-12T19:59:00.001-04:002023-10-12T19:59:30.571-04:00Friday the Thirteenth<p><span style="font-size: large;">I never used to pay Friday the thirteenth much attention...until March 13th, 2020. That Friday the thirteenth was the day we were sent home from school for an indefinite amount of time and the world seemed to dissolve into COVID weirdness.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">You can't blame me for being a little Paraskevedekatriaphobic-- someone who is afraid of Friday the 13th. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZv8G8qRkkJAsv5wN18auyJ3B1Mzo6p_cG_Z12d3eRQg_uugNNnmREzSnph2bCvUtloTHvid0w3os4WiU1MH6GqGdzsdZ5eaa9rIrnkFVVd3mJ1V0eEfkIfoybGhmybs1xPfWF-MXsRQYC0sRvQONjvjRJRh7W6CAhxLPH28XtaGD2s6tDdNsMZOZ4k7s/s1130/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-12%20at%205.53.37%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="1130" height="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZv8G8qRkkJAsv5wN18auyJ3B1Mzo6p_cG_Z12d3eRQg_uugNNnmREzSnph2bCvUtloTHvid0w3os4WiU1MH6GqGdzsdZ5eaa9rIrnkFVVd3mJ1V0eEfkIfoybGhmybs1xPfWF-MXsRQYC0sRvQONjvjRJRh7W6CAhxLPH28XtaGD2s6tDdNsMZOZ4k7s/w640-h630/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-12%20at%205.53.37%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">There are plenty of people wary of the number thirteen no matter what! This fear is triskaidekaphobia, not a word that trips off the tongue easily. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A rondel has thirteen eight-syllable lines. Ooooh. There's a poetry connection</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This poem is still a bit clunky, much like its inspiration word, triskaidekaphobia. C'est la vie times 13!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s triskaidekaphobia!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">A menacing diagnosis</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">with no hopeful prognosis.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">We’re stuck in paranoia.</span></span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-effa7c57-7fff-ee65-bae2-1f369168ab34" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our fear, our fright, our phobias</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">of one plus two plus four plus six–</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s triskaidekaphobia!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">A menacing diagnosis.</span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">No baker’s dozen mania.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rondel readings can provoke us.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">New teenagers just alarm us.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thursday night brings insomnia.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s triskaidekaphobia!</span></span></p><p><span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Linda Mitchell</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">10/13/23</span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">There's a new poem on <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/word-bwfgg0bqmjhf62fd/wish/2744333580" target="_blank">Word's padlet</a>. If it's beautiful fall here...it's spring elsewhere. Inspiration comes from Jama's Tuesday blog of beautiful things. I loved the artist, <a href="https://jamarattigan.com/2023/09/19/david-bromley-of-birds-and-butterflies-pirates-and-playthings/" target="_blank">David Bromley</a>, who she featured a few weeks ago.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Next week, I'll be at a School Librarian's conference in Florida. I'm giving myself permission to take a break from blogging. See you in a couple of weeks.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, Catherine, at <a href="https://readingtothecore.com/" target="_blank">Reading to the Core</a> for hosting this week's round-up.<br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-34081351950047275062023-10-05T20:05:00.003-04:002023-10-05T20:08:18.002-04:00Choose a visual framework--write a poem<p><span style="font-size: large;">HelLOOOOO October!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I'm not sure what you did with September, but here I am pumpkin-spiced and ready to roll.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Mary Lee tossed out this month's Inklings challenge and I love it! I have to warn you though, if you click on the Visual Frameworks link below...prepare yourself for a bit scrolling time through all the cool images.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">From Mary Lee:</span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c75e8eb1-7fff-64bd-10fd-34e02cf22c6e"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Choose an image from the
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Visual Frameworks <a href="https://visualframeworks.com/blog/" target="_blank">site</a>.
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Write a poem inspired by the image.</span></span></span></p><p><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't tell you why but the gears in the image below called to me.</span></span></span></p><p><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBv5rSoprj2KsTmaQIhBX9WZ4DFiqJMGybV3HGaRu1SVYev0k_8HmWM8B2ZecB51X08SUmEUXoHrSeg7J5LKBimmI24BvUHpGec4cQeUxXiVbibYbHMHBRMeZgMN4nWsJdqZG5WZ3a2S_-q5L8UoKYA_PoXtDr0EnP4vCbtQlpUg1jMkw_q-bNToboYiw/s1012/Gears.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="1012" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBv5rSoprj2KsTmaQIhBX9WZ4DFiqJMGybV3HGaRu1SVYev0k_8HmWM8B2ZecB51X08SUmEUXoHrSeg7J5LKBimmI24BvUHpGec4cQeUxXiVbibYbHMHBRMeZgMN4nWsJdqZG5WZ3a2S_-q5L8UoKYA_PoXtDr0EnP4vCbtQlpUg1jMkw_q-bNToboYiw/w640-h354/Gears.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gears sparked this sonnet--I'm still working on a title. Any ideas?</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sonnet Practice</b>
</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">These gears are turning round and round again</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">an automated poem for you and me</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">a chain of drivers and the driven spin</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">as syllables arranged in metric feet.
</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">A sonnet as mechanical as this</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">well-oiled tick and turn of cogs whirring</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">gives listeners a pleasant space of bliss</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">when the noise of life becomes unnerving.
</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">These gears are turning round and round again</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Without a care to who will hear them spin</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Turn words and phrases over end to end</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">A poetry in motion word-smith gin.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s now your turn – go out to find your pen</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">make words as gears and gears as words again.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Linda Mitchell
10/6/23</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">WORD showed up in another <a href="https://padlet.com/mitchellhubeimom/word-bwfgg0bqmjhf62fd/wish/2734686406" target="_blank">Gears</a> poem. It's on WORD's padlet.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you to <a href="https://mattforrest.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Matt Forest Esenwine</a> for hosting this week's Poetry Friday round-up. He's a busy poet these days and I love seeing that!<br /><br /><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMB7T62dG73Kf5SuhKWSbpW7r2QJA9Qq0DDRvjqmPwy8j48B6jso_2W3DS_Nw6ts9j9bWfX2WRh4o0abuksuF827R8BXojlj4ww5_JoRt8G6CQJb0M0_n2xsYEtoEZ6ofBXWSWK8v1PUrn3kQ7vN8rLpJ8yZTk4FSPVpMInxzeQQsYeLWtuGz6ro9n1zU/s1280/gear-408364_1280.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1039" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMB7T62dG73Kf5SuhKWSbpW7r2QJA9Qq0DDRvjqmPwy8j48B6jso_2W3DS_Nw6ts9j9bWfX2WRh4o0abuksuF827R8BXojlj4ww5_JoRt8G6CQJb0M0_n2xsYEtoEZ6ofBXWSWK8v1PUrn3kQ7vN8rLpJ8yZTk4FSPVpMInxzeQQsYeLWtuGz6ro9n1zU/w520-h640/gear-408364_1280.jpeg" width="520" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pixabay</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682499942234804128.post-85141910905230750342023-10-04T05:58:00.003-04:002023-10-04T06:15:56.396-04:00SJT. Gathering Gladness<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Sojourners,</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGkxiWLqUhSmIIfGk5uxwVWBbtV3a0QlPpnCZfEGuB0McJ4ReMd3EY05CRvaFGlJNHGBjKRB3fmF1LjTCsz9jXwEYO8txo_ZfywCYt7kmeMlUK0KnZpuNueOckoBCB9iMwviVkBc3NpvSmNisttLjVeTF8kVuXDO3LT_ISKCi6qDCwyKssu2GjmVGE_w4" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="878" height="36" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGkxiWLqUhSmIIfGk5uxwVWBbtV3a0QlPpnCZfEGuB0McJ4ReMd3EY05CRvaFGlJNHGBjKRB3fmF1LjTCsz9jXwEYO8txo_ZfywCYt7kmeMlUK0KnZpuNueOckoBCB9iMwviVkBc3NpvSmNisttLjVeTF8kVuXDO3LT_ISKCi6qDCwyKssu2GjmVGE_w4=w640-h36" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Proverbs 27:7</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, Ramona, for planting the seeds of gathering gladness. This was a delicious and thought-provoking prompt.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I'm listening with fascination to <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Bittersweet-Audiobook/B09MKWZW39?source_code=GO1MB12109072190YI&gclid=CjwKCAjwseSoBhBXEiwA9iZtxgEQW5E0qgea40inuS4DdFBgiqEi-emhkP9YmmF6dVEZ8HudZGstzBoCVPsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds" target="_blank"><i>Bitter Sweet </i></a>by Susan Cain (<span face=""Audible Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #061624;">©2022 Susan Cain (P)2022 Penguin Audio). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #061624; font-size: x-large;">In her book, Cain attempts to understand why she and so many humans are drawn to music in a minor key (considered sorrowful), TV ads that bring on tears, and things that are a mix of happy and sad. What this book is doing for me is providing permission to embrace the positives and negatives of life in ways that make my heart glad.</span></p><p><span face=""Audible Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #061624;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the questions of Cain's survey for readers is, "Do you prefer poetry to sports (or maybe you find poetry in sports?) <br />Um, yes, yes I do.</span></span></p><p><span face=""Audible Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #061624;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was raised by wonderful parents who gave their best efforts to raising daughters in a rural, conservative town in a time when such ideas as the power of positive thinking after a book of the same title by Norman Vince Peale were popular. I understood early that I was expected to be pleasant and demonstratively cheerful as evidence of inner rightness. For example, I was punished for my curled lip and encouraged to smile more.</span></span></p><p><span face=""Audible Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #061624;"><span style="font-size: large;">I've not read Peale's book. But I agree that my penchant for spirituality, poetry, stories with tragic plots, and poetry writing were an indicator that I would struggle with showing an accepted form of glad heart in my community. I was once described by a visiting poet as a "poor old soul." There are, Cain points out, many creatives, famous and unknown, similarly strung. </span></span></p><p><span face=""Audible Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #061624;"><span style="font-size: large;">I've not finished <i>Bitter Sweet</i> quite yet. And I'm not claiming to be a devotee of all the author's arguments. However, I am happy to broaden my view of a glad heart. My glad heart has room for poetry about the world's state of affairs--which I worry over, my thoughts on my aging body, children growing up and leaving my nest, and a love for novels set in World War II. </span></span></p><p><span face="Audible Sans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #061624; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm absolutely delighted over cooler sunny days, red-tinted maple leaves, upcoming conferences with like-minded professionals, and, new lessons to plan. I also love a foggy day to sit and stare out a window at nothing in particular. I enjoy sorting thoughts of some of life's big questions. Rumination isn't all bad.</span></span></p><p><span face="Audible Sans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #061624; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">October is perfect for consideration of Bitter Sweet. This past week was gray, gray, and, gray as a hurricane wound down and back out to sea in my area only to be replaced by another soggy low-pressure system. Today, it's sunny and balmy. I've enjoyed time at Parent's Weekend with my son who is a scientist. I'll go home to where his room is silent and empty...I've been meaning to re-paint.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Life is bitter...life is sweet...I gather all into a heart that is glad for how they enhance each other.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMY1QxPofxEhqS8PerXoI8kEDFkEfH4h9Tmejo2T4BAZeg0qX7-JnW_Q_Pg7A-PHZlLL4KRZc7OTutNJluafM09pCdcmhWQRd6CzljVjShlxDL46c64mGJH16lZGWchLyLzUBnxp1crYW9zUXVmHC6Yk94XEDAWAfZIlLD7KPvFmfaXvLblxSIMnPm8xY/s2250/SweeterTPauleII.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2250" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMY1QxPofxEhqS8PerXoI8kEDFkEfH4h9Tmejo2T4BAZeg0qX7-JnW_Q_Pg7A-PHZlLL4KRZc7OTutNJluafM09pCdcmhWQRd6CzljVjShlxDL46c64mGJH16lZGWchLyLzUBnxp1crYW9zUXVmHC6Yk94XEDAWAfZIlLD7KPvFmfaXvLblxSIMnPm8xY/w640-h426/SweeterTPauleII.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pixabay. Timothy Paule II</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Linda Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833034575304594924noreply@blogger.com3