Welcome to Poetry Friday this week hosted by Carol at Beyond Literacy HERE. I look forward to what she has for us this week!
I received lovely postcards from Poetry Friday friends Molly Hogan, Heidi Mordhorst, Michelle Kogan, Gail Aldous, Linda Baie, and Tricia Stohr-hunt and Jone MacCullough. They were bright spots in an otherwise rather dreary week. Thank you Jone for masterminding the poetry swap-New Years post cards! I was thrilled to receive them in my mailbox and loved all the photos, poems and artwork. Thank you all!
When you lose sight
of the beauty around you
may a new day
restore glory
to the tattered and ordinary
and light the way
© Molly Hogan
Jone shares a photo along with a quote and a poem inspired by it:
Daybreak
What have I risked?
--Kelli Russell Agodon
first morning, walking on the beach, what
treasures does the ebbing tide have?
Reading sea-foam like tea leaves, I
wonder what my ancestors risked?
© Jone MacCullough
Lunar New Year The Emperor of Heaven waits burn the kitchen God and pray for a good report Fill red envelops choose eight crisp, new bills for health, prosperity, long life Hang inverted fu for the pouring out of luck--may it arrive on your doorstep Prepare the feast eat auspicious oranges'launch fireworks light fires Stay awake! The new year is coming © Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024
new year's gift- forget the hurry waste time every day listen to the rain and to the cat's purr © Linda Baie
Sun holds blue sky's hands they persuade gray clouds away sparkling peace and light poem and photo © Gail Aldous
Michelle Kogan sent her amazing artwork and two poems
Together
we can
do more
let's begin
© Michelle Kogan
Get Ready . . .
Compass
Cooper's Hawk
as you navigate
unknown, unbalanced paths of
2024 . . .
© Michelle Kogan
The Horse in My Throat for Duncan Remember that raw day in February when you told the aching truth? "The horse in my throat is a red dragon-horse his roaring burns me up in hot strawberry smoke his hoofs and claws are rough and sweet my voice is tangled in the beating of his wings he's a thirsty horse hungry for lemon and honey but if I feed him he'll whinny and fly away" © Heidi Mordhorst Poem from PUMKIN BUTTERFLY 2009
I will be posting on Poetry Friday somewhat erratically, I guess you’d say, over the next few weeks as I will be visiting family. I will also take some pictures and gather some new ideas that I can share going forward. I hope you all have a terrific rest of winter. Today in Syracuse it was sunny and in the fifties, so I know many of you will be getting some springlike weather. Enjoy and stay safe!