Welcome to Poetry Friday, this week hosted by Molly at Nix the Comfort Zone HERE. This week she is sharing some thoughts about joy and creativity. Thank you, Molly, for hosting.
I participated in the Poetry Friday New Years and summer swaps this year. A couple of the gifts I received I never shared and would like others to enjoy them.
For the New Year, I received a card with a photo from Margaret Simon. The photo and I love the words “grace” and “wisdom” in this elfchen poetry form.
GRACE
BELONGS HERE
TELLING ME HOW
GOOD I AM NOW
***
WISDOM
© Margaret Simon
Another postcard I received last winter in the poetry swap was from Denise Krebs. I love her very cool, whimsical art work!
by Denise Krebs
Then earlier this week Denise sent me a summer swap full of treasures. Denise took the haiku and accompanying photos from my blog and made small bouquet of signs out of them! I was so touched by it as well as the poem she wrote to go with them.
My bouquet of haiku made by Denise.
Haiku Bouquet
A Triolet for Janice Scully
After her "Peony Bouquet"
Sing of beautiful photos with words,
words of poetry--bouquet of haiku
to reimagine flowers and birds.
Sing of beautiful photos with words
of history, life, and more--herds
of topics in poetry month gift--time to
sing of beautiful photos with words,
words of poetry--bouquet of haiku.
© Denise Krebs
Thank you Margaret and Denise. Each poetry swap provides ideas I can use in my future Poetry Friday swaps.
Now, I want to follow up on a previous post I made when I planted a pot of impatiens. Back in June I wrote when I planted some small plants:
humble impatiens
should I count buds everyday?
or be more patient?
© Janice Scully
I watered them and left them do what flowers do.
Two months ago
The same flowers today.
I wrote a triolet to celebrate using a word I don’t usually use, to try it out. Some readers may think it’s an exaggeration but that then again, they might not.
AN EBULLIENT TRANSITION
Surprising indeed how tall they grow,
in summertime ebullition!
Red and pink in such a show,
Surprising indeed how tall they grow.
When they will stop, I don't quite know,
this sparse to full transition.
Surprising indeed how tall they grow,
in summertime ebullition!
© Janice Scully 2024
Good luck to all the teachers and librarians returning to school. I always loved the first day of school as a child; it’s an exciting time and I hope the new year goes well.
Next week I will be hosting Poetry Friday. See you then! Thank you, Molly for hosting today.
Janice, what a fun post! So much here, and some familiar things from me too. I enjoyed reading all this variety here. Ebullient is such a great word for describing what those impatiens are doing! Lovely “sparse to full transition”
What bounty! And yay for letting flowers (and all things) simply do what they do. xo
Hi Irene and thank you! I hope you are having a great summer and enjoying your garden.
Thank you for this rich post full of such joy, Janice. Also, for reminding me how much I like triolets. I haven’t written one in a while but now I plan to soon.
Thanks Rose. It’s a fun form. I hope you’ve had a joyful Summer!
Denise is so clever. I love her triolet. I also love your use of ebullient about these flowers. After a week of 100 degrees and no rain, my once ebullient flowers are suffering. Thanks for sharing my new year elfchen. I’d forgotten all about it. Ha!
Soaking up all the beauty here in your post–in the words, the art, the friendships. Thank you, Janice!
Janice, I love the EBULLIENCE of your post — gifts of grace, literally! (Isn’t that what flowers do?)
Thanks,Patricia!Hope you’re having a great summer.
Ebullition describers your impatiens transformation perfectly, and the triolet with it’s repeating line works so well. Thanks for sharing your bevy of poem postcards, you’re growing a garden with them too!
What a rich post! I love how you’ve found inspiration multiple times in your impatiens. Ebullient is the perfect word for their lush growth and works beautifully in your triolet. Also, thanks for sharing your swap bounty. Your whole post is a bouquet of summer offerings!
I love the before and after pictures! In the spring, my garden looks sparse, with all the plants small and far apart. Then comes the season of ebullience! Now, things are fading back again — amazing how empty the space looks now that I’ve cut back the peonies and tied up the tall black-eyed Susans! But look there…the foliage of the grape hyacinths is poking up, reminding me that spring WILL come again!
Your triolet works perfectly to capture the way your impatiens answered your impatience!
Hi, Janice! I love how you worked a seldom-used word into your poem about your impatient plants. I also track the progress of my plants – with photography – and with daily care. You have a few really cool ideas here. Thanks for sharing them (and the swaps as well).