
Still the darkness sings its song:
Slow, gentle, silhouettes
Etch to dusk, coil o’er eyelids
Shadowed feasts; weathered fetes.
This poem is a response to a prompt from David Harrison:
New challenge from J. Patrick Lewis: “In the lives of . . . “
Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
18 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: coil, darkness, dusk, etch, eyelids, gentle silhouettes, riddle, shadowed feasts, sings, slow, weathered fetes

Still the darkness sings its song:
Slow, gentle, silhouettes
Etch to dusk, coil o’er eyelids
Shadowed feasts; weathered fetes.
This poem is a response to a prompt from David Harrison:
New challenge from J. Patrick Lewis: “In the lives of . . . “
12 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Annika in a Box, electronic songs, epigraph, flow, matters, riddle
All things flow into one another.
What we do matters.
Richard Jones
11 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Family, Uncategorized Tags: artist, books, citation, detail, echo, epigraph, invisible, literary composition, literature, motto, nancy willard, passage excerpt, quote, riddle, saint, theme
A motto or quotation, as at the beginning of a literary composition, setting forth a theme.
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc., suggesting its theme
quotation, quote, citation
1. repeat, recite, reproduce, recall, echo, extract, excerpt, proclaim, parrot, paraphrase, retell
2. refer to, cite, give, name, detail, relate, mention, instance, specify, spell out, recount, recollect, make reference to, adduce
3. estimate, state, tender, set, offer, bid
noun
(Informal) quotation, passage, excerpt, reference, extract, citation
The artist, like the saint shows us how to love.
To love, one must make oneself invisible.
Nancy Willard
Epigraph (A list poem)
jump start
motto
quotation
theme
repeat
echo
proclaim
cite
name
detail
instance
specify
adduce
state
offer
10 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: acidly, boutique, chanting, dizzy, exploding, frizzled, gift, iphone, lightening, musings, mystique, photo booth, riddle, spells, tizzy, wild
Who put your photo in Photo Booth?
Whirled it around like an unwanted tooth?
Offered you up to the i-Phone Boutique,
Dizzy and tizzy and busy mystique.
Whirled it around like an unwanted tooth;
Magic wand twirling: wild and uncouth:
Mid chanting, and spells and musings to sooth!
Offered you up to the i-Phone Boutique,
Where Photo Booth surgically alters your face
“Til you’re not looking part of the male human race!
Dizzy and tizzy and busy mystique:
Waving and frizzled, acidly blown
Exploding like lightening on the i-Phone!
This poem is a trimeric.
08 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: animations, catherine johnson, children's poetry, diamonds, gallery, singing, spine poetry, stack, tenderize
In July of this year, 2013, there will be a Gallery Show of Jeanne’s Poetry Books at Columbia Greene Community College here in the Hudson Valley. If you want to participate, comment on this site.
To see free animations of the books, go to:
http://www.blurb.com/user/store/JMPoland21
Spine Poem
Poetry in a stack:
diamonds in the rough;
Polish with your singing voice:
tenderize the tough.
07 Apr 2013 5 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: climbing rhyme, fungus, g-hazels, gap, lap, lunch, munch, mushroom, roots, sap, teases, toes
Here is my first CLIMBING RHYME POEM:
Fungus
(“Easy, greaz-y, there’s a fungus among us.” Gary Moore)
Fungus in a tree
teases me to see
if I will fly to munch
mushrooms for lunch.
A bunch of roots
scrambling for my boots
climbing ‘tween my toes
to close the gap
of sap and growth,
lap dancing for me.
Look at this poem closely. The rhymes are not only at the end, but appear throughout in different places, like in African chants called g-hazels. There is a long history in poetry of rhymes being used in work chants such that one person starts a chant to set a rhythm to make the work go more smoothly and entertain other workers. Then the poem is handed off to another worker who keeps the rhythm but adds to the rhyme. In Africa, workers built reputations for being excellent rhymers or great game players in this form of poetry competition.
The CLIMBING RHYME has it’s history in Burma and the Burmese language only has one syllable words, but here in the US adaptations are needed.
Here is a graph for this poem.
Line 1 xxxxA
Line 2 xxAxA
Line 3 xBxBxC
Line 4 xxxC
Line 5 xCxD
Line 6 xxxxD
Line 7 xxxxE
Line 8 xExF
Line 9 xFxx
Line 10 Fxxxx
06 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: buttercup, candy, licking, licorice, lips, poetry, riddle, sips
It’s the buttercup petals licking their lips;
The licorice candy and lemonade sips.
05 Apr 2013 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: catherine johnson, drag, elbows, glint gold, glint of gold, grabbing, knees, rigid, swish, tight, upright, wake, waterski, waves
I was recently inspired by Catherine Johnson’s poem, and wanted to accompany hers with this one.
Water skiing
by Catherine Johnson
splutter
pull
thighs
hard
spray
engine
rev
up
this
time
Ride
upright
when you ski;
bended knees: elbows
rigid, pulling tight, grabbing quick!
Swish through waves, sway, drag, wake-create a flash, glint of gold!
04 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: blood orange, flagrant, fragrant, golden, pink grapefruit, sensuous sun, sweet, warm
Drop
of
fragrant
french vanilla,
flagrant pink grapefruit,
sweet blood orange, sandalwood, and
golden amber: warm sensuous feel: HOME in the sun!