Poetry Month Week 3 - 'Haiku'

reading of an escaped parrot 100 years ago

recalling one in a car 30 years ago

the bluebirds fly away

daylight fading

moments left for a short walk

flowers dangle bumblebees upside-down

bluebird duo flashes past

taking joy with them

the bright red feeder sways - -

was that the first hummingbird?

across a stroke of dusk magenta

dark clouds - tears of rain

streak the injured Earth

chilly winds tugging

a slender thread from now to past

meeting before, again

stocking up holding

tight just in case -

forgetting to see now

thinking too hard

about painting flowers

they wither under pressure

Week 9 of 100 Day Project

I may need to move into a third box -- had no idea that I could make so many little nature-inspired bits in 100 days! I went on a riff making tiny stamps made from very cheap erasers cut into 3 pieces each. They are printed on cloth, paper, corrugated carton scraps, or on top of gelli plate scrap prints. The little book shows a stamp that I didn't like at all until I tried rotating it and discovered I could make scruffy flowers and butterflies. Might just be one of my favorites now!

Poetry Week 2 'Haiku'

cold April - why the orange butterfly?

this belongs to summer

gray branches and chill winds

still the cardinal

sings spring

saving the memory

of red tulips -

smashing them onto page

skip the chores

wake the neighbors:

double rainbow

a storm past

still a fear

of wind in the trees

'The red thread'

to Swedes - ‘unifying element’

now frayed in so many places

even the squirrel knows

to gaze from its twig:

the robin sings

Week 8 of 100 day project

A busy week! A brown cardstock zine using some of my embroidered bluets on the cover. I cut 2 new eraser stamps and used them to make new masking tape 'washi.' Rolled flower petals between scrap paper to create colorful impressions (once the flowers went by). Fountain pen inches sprayed with water - made them look a bit like Delft tiles - I want to explore that more. And I used my older fern and flower bud eraser stamps with Ranger permanent black to dress up an old tee.

Poetry Month first week

Flickers of 'haiku' without brightness, but a start.

Surprised by changes

in the roads we walk, yet blind

to the oceans' effortless shape-shifting.

Dawn birds sing, crows caw;

the pink sunrise denies the storm --

so why do I fret?

The miracle is watching

birds soar on the storm-winds

a not so simple peace

Ice-encased red maple buds

spring undecided shatters dreams

of blooming

Early robin stunned

by a leaden snow wonders:

to nest or not to nest

The wind whips chill -

open water ripples - in flight

two geese synchronize

Silently, wait and wait

until the stream's flow draws the gaze --

-- the heron has flown away.

Week 7 of 100 Day Project

Added homemade washi to mini book and made a base for a little accordian style booklet, more acrylic pen flowers, created a stamp from the non-slip plastic you put on shelves and stamped it on fabric and paper . . .

Week 6 of 100 day project

Added homemade washi tape to accordian mini-journal, white pen test flowers, flower photos of needlework by my grandmother Helen, hot glue flower stencils, sponge chrysanthemum, crocheted flower project I found online, continuing forget-me-not minis, and embossed recycled plastic with flower and butterfly.

Almost time for National/Global Poetry Writing Month!

 The warm up prompt for today was to explore 'spine poems.' See their post for March 29, 2024 at:

Spine Poems at NaPoWriMo

My offering to the 'spine poem' world:

Twelve months of the year:

Women in praise of the sacred

writing metrical poetry

monopolizing knowledge:

this is your brain on music.

Waiting

Spring comes and goes, wind

blown, trapped beneath ice - but see:

one crocus, rabbit-chewed.

Week 5 of 100 Day Project

Lots of stamping this week, using my own and purchased stamps, opaque paint set test swatch with florals added, continuing embroidered flowers, and the cleaning-my-brush and stamps scrap paper punched to make buttons.

April Poetry Month is on the way!

 

Here's setting my goal to write every day in April,

even if it isn't a whole poem a day

for National (or Global)Poetry Writing Month!

NaPoWriMo2024

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