Mom

Here’s my mom, taken by dad. Note the geeky stuff tag- she’s the poster child for using technology. She published this pic into a gallery from MobileMe!

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National Poetry Month Day #25

Well I was really struggling with this today. Prompts didn’t do anything for me. The Not Without Poetry one was interesting – pick an internet meme and use that as a starting point, or even just the idea of a meme. The NaPoWriMo prompt was about writing in riddle form. I pondered a bunch of things – too close to the bone. Wrote one haiku that was positively bleak.

I’m sticking those little squares back on the wall – almost done. I pick up a pile, look at the color chosen quite awhile ago and think – really? But it is all working out quite ok.

So in the interest of having written something that I’m willing to stick on this wall I offer you the following little haiku:

Commercial Fabrics
Little squares stuck to my wall
My colors and choice.

oh what the heck:

when I am long gone
my work will either pack trucks
or big museums.

LOL or how about

If you’re too lazy
to type your name and comment
I’m good with that too.

OK maybe a beverage, the last few rows and bed.

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National poetry month day #24

What? What happened to
The daily poem Mary Beth?
It’s a long story.

Threw some stanzas into a group poem on Not Without Poetry. It was/is interesting and fun but I can’t think of what might go next or how we know if it’s done.

The whole poem, compiled by the prompt giver can be seen in comments.

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Re-emerging quilt

I decided to put the squares I’d taken off the wall to make the last two quilts back up there. Icky sentence!

I wanted to see if it needed anything changed or added. I don’t know.

But tonight that’s what I started to do. I thought it would not be fun but it’s been ok. I found some squares flipped to the wrong side and I found a couple doubles. I was willing to rethink colors but so far so good.

Here’s not quite half of it again.

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Happy Easter and what’s for dinner?

What's for dinner?  Pommes Anna

Carrots, asparagus and, straight from Julia Child – Pommes Anna.

In other news I rounded up all the haiku twitter posts for the month so far and tweaked them in pages (getting rid of the @’s and extra spacing and putting proper line breaks etc). Ended up with four pages of two-column haiku-goodness. Who knew? I did leave in a very few of the better haiku-related tweets too just for interest.

Over on Not Without Poetry today, the challenge is to write a chain renga — a group poem that is added to a stanza at a time, and in a particular syllable count format. It goes 5-7-5 and then 7-7 and each stanza should relate to the one before it and overall the form should relate to change. Where do these forms come from?

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