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

Image from The GraphicsFairy.com

Week 4 of 100 Day Project

Added  my flower photo to mini book cover, clipped a tiny bundle of tiny flowers from 2 catalogs, experimented with dip pens I haven't used in a long time, tested stamps that I bought and never used and my own carved ones to make bits to add to journals and cards, sliced a print of a Wanderlust project to make 'washi tape' to glue down, and continued to work on strip of embroidered flowers on felt.

Wind Whipped

March is rattling the trees

shaking off their broken bones

spearing skeleton-white limbs

an inch or more into 

the frost-heaved mush of

thawing earth

making me thankful

to not be shuddering tree

nor deep-soaked earth

gasping its last frosty

breath into the March wind.

Week 3 of 100 Day Project

The embroidered strip of felt and the accordion book of my flower photos to be continued during week 4, making it easy to grab 5 minutes a day to stay on track. (Hot glue flowers, stencil and prints/off-prints, the paper that was under the stencil when I cut it out.

Second Week of 100 Day Project

This week, I carved a little stamp in a Dollar Store eraser and explored using that. Also, Francesca Nunes has a posting that showed punching paper for texture so I did a bit of that as well. Reusing some printing blocks I made for Wanderlust in the past.