Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: Alvin Ailey, arcs, cones, cubes, dance, epicycles, gyres, insruments dance to stretch, instrument of human body, Marge Piercy, no straight lines, rhomboids, sheer sublimity, spirals, to flow, to grow, to show
Alvin Ailey Dance Troop
Instrument of Human Body
instruments dance to
stretch to flow to grow to show
sheer sublimity
Nothing moves in a straight line,
But in arcs, epicycles, spirals and gyres.
Nothing living grows in cubes, cones, or rhomboids,
Marge Piercy
14 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: Acadia National Forest, Christina Boucher, craggy shore, dance their ancient minuet, evolve in sinc, graphic artist, harbor spoon, lobsters, map, mountains, Mt Desert Island, praises the fjord, South Harbor Maine
Christina Boucher
Graphic Artist
Southwest Harbor, Maine
the graphic artist
praises the fjord
(largest on the Eastern Coast of the USA)
shows the terrain of Mt Desert Island
and the Acadia National Forest.
mountains and harbor spoon on the craggy shore.
lobsters lap in the tides.
map lines rise up
dance their ancient minuet
evolve in sync.
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: 2015, craggy branches, fairyland, handsome prince, Maine April12, point the way, seven dwarfs, wild things
Maine TreesFresco
April12,2015
Craggy branches
point the way
to seven dwarfs
handsome prince,
years of beauty sleep:
the wild path to fairyland!
,
12 Apr 2015 2 Comments
in Family Tags: April12, somersault, thud to fly, topsy-turvy, trapeze, virtual to concrete, wind toss
Jeanne somersaults
April 12, 2015
Tom Clancy:
He said: “I’m in the entertainment business. My function in life for the most part is to take people out of their lives and put them somewhere else.”
hanging from the trapeze
wind tossing me
from grands
to elders
somersault
from virtual
to concrete
thud
to
fly
and then again
topsy-turvy!
11 Apr 2015 3 Comments
in Family Tags: 2015, a circus animation, April 11, BALANCE, breathing smiles and bows, centering, chutzpah, hiding poop, intuition's quicksilver, resting finish, superhero disguise, sweat, under the tent
Jeanne in superhero disguise
April 11, 2015
chutzpah:
a circus
animation.
intuition’s
quicksilver.
balance
centering
resting finish.
hiding
poop &
sweat.
breathing
smiles &
bows.
under the tent.
10 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: a life with Alzheimer's, color, laughter, Music, three doors to happiness
Bob Boyajian
April 9, 2015
Three doors to happiness for a life with Alzheimer’s :
laughter
color
music
08 Apr 2015 1 Comment
in Family Tags: burned violet, circles, conducted the energy, emptied the rage, fisted anger, forgiveness, getting lost, grew redemption, innocence, listen in circles, look around, rage in my cells, stories, superconductor, the way to heaven, when you're lost
superconductor
channel
story
Epigraph:
Stories move in circles…So it helps if you listen in circles….And part of the finding is the getting lost. And when you’re lost, you start to look around and to listen. Deena Metzger
I looked :
and found fisted anger:
rage in my cells.
listened;
saw the way to heaven
was forgiveness.
emptied the rage;
grew redemption.
conducted
the energy
of innocence:
burned violet!
Footnote:
On this date in 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity using mercury.
You can run a charge through a loop of superconducting wire, and it will hold its charge indefinitely, even when the battery is removed.
07 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: Emily Dickinson, magnitude, outer from inner, piqued by deer scat, the long winter long, tip-toed through nature, walked the green grass
Inner manifests outer
Epigraph
The Outer from the Inner
Derives its magnitude —
by Emily Dickinson
walked the green grass
yesterday
piqued by
deer scat-
tip-toed
through
what nature
needed
and dropped
for me
the long winter long
April 7, 2015
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: buoyancy, flamboyant ants, flimflam, floating beyond lonliness, Jamshid AfsharJr, lonliness cannot catch me, roller skate, skating partnered, skating solo, the RollerSkating Ant
The flimflam (flamboyant ants) from” the Roller Skating Ant” by Jeanne Poland
When I roller-skate
I feel that loneliness
cannot catch me.
Jamshid Afshar, Jr (child poet)
skating solo
skating partnered
floating
beyond
loneliness
Jeanne Poland
05 Apr 2015 3 Comments
in Family Tags: a doorway into thanks, not a contest, patch a few words together, prayer, silence in which another voice may speak, weeds in a vacant lot
A field of weeds
Praying
It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones: just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.
Mary Oliver
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 