Welcome to Poetry Friday! This week we are hosted by poet and artist Irene Latham Here. I’m so excited about the anthology she and Charles Waters are creating, and grateful like so many poets for this opportunity to submit this weekend..
This week I’ve been busy revising old work and didn’t do much new writing but I did take a walk today and came home with a poem. A sudden snow squall, sent me rushing home a little early:
ON MY WALK
Snow Squall.
White out.
footprints
coming at me-
my only guide back home.
© Janice Scully
For a few weeks I have also been practicing what is called Urban Sketching. It involves a loose drawing in black ink with a loose wash of watercolor. I discovered this on YouTube, and have been following Toby Urban Sketcher. I am a novice to drawing and painting, but I find that the “loose” inaccurate drawings I produce are so much fun. It’s a stress reducer for sure. There is no pressure to reproduce something true to real life. It’s just and idea of an event or anything that you want to remember.
Here is a sketch from the recent No Kings demonstration in Syracuse.
neighbors, colored signs,
casting shadows on the street
in afternoon sun.
© Janice Scully
Enjoy December, everyone. Thanks Irene for hosting!