Welcome to Poetry Friday! This week we are hosted by Catherine HERE. Be sure to stop by this weekend. Thank you, Catherine, for hosting!
Like many I’ve met on Poetry Friday, I love to write, cook, sew and otherwise make things. I love writing poems, a collection of words that never existed before. Amy Ludwig Vanderwater has written a delightful poetry picture book celebrating the joy in making things. Many I am sure have read it.
My sister, Barbara Rog, likes to make things, too. She is a professional ceramicist and a teacher for many years, currently living in Burbank, California. Recently, she has been making pendants and many other pretty things.
Though she’s retired from teaching, she recently taught a few Girl Scouts how to make pinch pots. If you’d like to see her teaching video for children, the YouTube link is here.
The two girls below are fashioning pinch pots with clay. They glazed them and Barbara fired them in her kiln. In the absence of a kiln, air dry clay can be used.
They made these little pots:
LITTLE PINCH POT Warm from the kiln, one of a kind, my fingertips forever etched in clay. I bring you home today. There you will sit, sparkling blue, on a shelf or windowsill, soon to hold spices, salt, shells, or sea glass, each more splendid because of you. © Janice Scully 2022
I hope you all are writing or otherwise creating something that will bring you joy. Thank you Catherine for hosting!
By Best,
Janice