Oh hey, it’s me again.
And hey, another wordle. Ho hum? Nah.
List of words as picked by Sabra and she’s picked one word each from last week’s poems submitted as follows:
Viv: hall
Abby: holes
Barbara: sleeping
Hannah: spiral
Rosyln: moment
Anya: dismissed
Debi: looked
Jules: suits
Irene: pondered
Laura: veined
Pat: solace
Use these words to build your poem, ok? 11 words only. The return of sanity finally.
And for another building block for your poem, we need a theme, or a hook. And it’s this: the gaze of the other.
You know clarity often comes unexpectedly. I was reading Mark Doty’s dog memoir today and there’s this moment that came toward the end of the book, when he has a sick retriever at home and then had an encounter with a stray dog, a yellow-ochre cross breed, on a street in Mexico. The pawing of the hand, the surrender of the weight of her head in both his hands. It opened his heart. A heart that was walled up in despair. With that openness, that nakedness, it billowed open. He felt compassion, grief and sorrow for her lot. But not hopeless.
So it is that with every one of us, we can contain sorrow and we can contain joy.
Then comes this gem of a sentence: “How should we know ourselves, except in the clarifying mirror of some other gaze?”
Go forth, poets. How will you respond?
This fit in so well with a group of poems I am working on. So much inspiration!
Gladly, Laura. 🙂
http://herthursday.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-sweet-sleep-spiral.html
Went off wandering in my brain
http://northernwall.blogspot.com/2014/08/metaphysics-we-wordle-25.html
O happy wanderer!
Mine is as a result of having spent most of yesterday sleeping (a combination of meds takes all the stuffing out of me): http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/sleep-2/
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Here we go! http://historyofawoman.com/2014/08/28/y2k/
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http://georgeplaceblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/blind-to-me/
http://miskmask.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/the-peculiar-side-of-dreams/
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https://juleslongerstrandsofgems.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/will-you-wake-me/
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Here’s my contribution http://artifactsandfictions.com/2014/08/28/plight-of-the-homeless/
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Finally wrote mine.
http://orangeisafruit.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/we-looked-at-the-moon/
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Here’s my contribution: http://bastetandsekhmet.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/solace-august-29-2014/
And mine, done in a bit of a rush.
http://roslynrosssmallstones.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/sleeping.html
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http://stimmyabby.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/back-to-sensing-where-i-can-see-myself/
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http://wordrustling.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/wired-weird/
I only used one though…hope that’s okay. 🙂
You know it’s okay, Hannah.
Thank you, Irene, I do know. 🙂
Rather late in the day, this is my contribution, Irene!
http://imagery77.blogspot.com/2014/08/strains-of-music-soothing-to-ears.html
Hank
Hello Hank, Actually not late. Not at all.
Apologies for not having time to read poems and post. I am packing again and in travel mode.
I’ve forgotten what it’s like not to cough constantly, but the brain is easing into gear. Sorta.
http://ssynthesis.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/a-return-to-sanity/
Here’s mine.
http://sabrabowers.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/dismissed/
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Late, late, late on this one.
Mine is up at: http://purplepeninportland.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/how-do-you-live/