every Ftiday I will try to post images of art cards from the week and where I put them and mention whom I gave them to….
Friday is Creative Deed Day
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Day Eight: Drawer, Ode, Apostrophe
(so, no use of “apostrophe,” not really finished. I think it needs to be rewritten but here it is anyway)
Ode To One of My File Drawers
A beautiful pencil drawing, so precise with pretty shapes
Done long ago by whom I do not know.
Unfinished necklaces, colorful beaded ones.
In separate bags inside you
but they lie next to each other in you.
Hello today, Flat file drawer, labelled
art therapy and A-H…
You are deep, wide and expansive despite your small height.
Even some altered books, still small enough to fit.
Lots of mandalas partly colored in.
Sometimes a mask is in your roomy home.
These visitors are temporary, but they tend to stay a long time.
There are pictures with words, private things, poems too. You can
hold them all and you keep their secrets.
An unfinished ream catcher made with wire and neon pipe cleaners,
An intention written on a purple piece of paper
says, “I will do things that make me happy.”
This one is for everyone in the drawer and me too.
Even though I don’t see it and had forgotten about it,
It is a big part of art therapy;
helping people find things to do that make them happy;
Both in session and in daily life.
That makes me happy. I am happy some of my own artwork
done with another person is in your vastness too.
You are filled with so many kinds of feelings, dark and light;
You hold depression and anxiety, secrets and shame,
You hold hope and happiness, creativity and loss,
You are Rumi’s guest house, receiving anything that comes,
Watching all sorts of things leave.
You are Dr. Seuss’s waiting room of Art.
hope is a fish, image
Here is how I wanted the poem to look, except at the end I had no extra space to have a lot of space before the last line…
(catching up) Writing 201: Poetry, Day Four — Animal, Concrete Poem, Emjambment
hope is a fish
hang your
velvet trimmed
dusty blue grey hat
on
hope.
hope is
the
promise
that sticks sometimes on a thin piece
of tape curling
the ends.
up at
you don’t know if the middle can
hold it down
but it does.
it
sometimes
hangs by a
dirty
s
t
r
i
n
g
dangling over
an empty
bottle
of wine.
like a fish it
darts
around.
when you think it’s disappeared-
it’s just sleeping.
Translation:
hope is a fish
hang your velvet trimmed dusty blue grey hat on hope.
hope is the promise that sticks sometimes on a thin piece of tape curling up at the ends.
you don’t know if the middle can hold it down but it does.
it sometimes hangs by a dirty string dangling over an empty bottle of wine.
like a fish it darts around.
when you think it’s disappeared, it’s just sleeping.
(This did not look the way I wanted it to. I will try to write it freehand and take a photo of how I was thinking it should look…)
Writing 201: Poetry, Day Six: Hero(ine), Ballad, Epistrophe
Ok this one is just out of my league. Since I am a night owl up late who fights against having to sleep and wake up at crazy hours like 7 or 8am, here is my attempt at ballad. The villain is sleep and staying up is the heroine!
Ballad: To the Night
I want you and I don’t…
Oh why can’t I stay?
I won’t I won’t I won’t.
I won’t let you take away,
I won’t let you take away
My mind and my hands.
Don’t close my lids til day.
It’s measured out in sands.
Sands go through as time,
Time goes by this night:
This night I want to stay
Awake awake to play.
To play alone this night.
Don’t close my lids til day.
I stay up and fight
You, sleep! Yes sleep,
Sleep that eats away,
Eats away my life.
I’m getting old for day;
The night is here my wife
Awake I will refuse you.
Sleep, like death, you erase,
You erase me. I want to do-
To do something all night long.
So I stay up to write this song.
I want you and I don’t:
Sleep you take so long.
I will you and I won’t!
First Yoga Lesson
Nice poem!
“Be a lotus in the pond,” she said, “opening
slowly, no single energy tugging
against another but peacefully,
all together.”
I couldn’t even touch my toes.
“Feel your quadriceps stretching?” she asked.
Well, something was certainly stretching.
Standing impressively upright, she
raised one leg and placed it against
the other, then lifted her arms and
shook her hands like leaves. “Be a tree,” she said.
I lay on the floor, exhausted.
But to be a lotus in the pond
opening slowly, and very slowly rising–
that I could do.
-From Mary Oliver’s Blue Horses Poems
Monday, November 10 Prompt:
What knowledge do you have that others don’t? Write a “how to” post about anything you’ve got skills for, small or large.
I’ve got yoga skills, but didn’t have enough time to write about it as well as Mary Oliver did.
A Favorite Poem
Fog
Carl Sandburg
THr fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches 5
and then moves on.
Poetry Assignment: Fog, Elegy, Metaphor
Untitled
“The fog comes on little cat feet”
is one of my favorite lines.
For you, the fog was a tiger.
You left on Sept. 18, 2013
It’s a foggy death you chose.
You knew you wanted to die.
I have a fantasy of fog:
That I am walking towards the water
in a thick fog
and you emerge.
You say words, explain, convince…
Death was not a fog for you
and all the others who chose it.
It was a sharp knife to cut the pain.
I see you all together.
The suicides under the sea
that we cannot see.
I beat my head on the fog
No comfort.
You can’t hit fog, you can’t swallow fog.
Death swallowed you up that day.
I wait for it to spit you out
So I can see you again as you once were.
Trust, Acrostic, Internal Rhyme
Today is just another cold unfolding day of my life
Reminding unwinding myself to be open
Underneath the hazy film of awareness
Something is taking form, making me warm
Trusting the process of writing a poem.
Limerick, journey, alliteration
There was a sort of young lady named Nat
Actually Natasha: with crazy collages all day she sat.
She walked around tribeca holding her art.
Hiding it all over with her big blooming heart.
Which grew bigger from randomly giving away
Little pieces of art every day.
