Thursday Poem Share

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I’m so excited that I ACTUALLY have a poem to share with you this week! In fact, I’ve written several poems this week, not all were drafts that I kept, but still SOMETHING. And I think a lot of it had to do with pulling out some paper.

About six months ago I went mostly digital even for writing and note-taking although lately sometimes I’ve realized I’m forgetting things while I wait for a textpad to open up where I could just jot a note on a sticky note so I’m going to get a new journal (hopefully today) and embrace being analog and digitally. Heck, I still read that way too.

So for better or worse here it is. And, for anyone new this is me back to just writing everything into a block of text during the first version.

–and that poem is gone for revision/review. 

In other news, the lovely Jessica Graustein took the time to write a review of my chapbook An Amateur Marriage. Love hearing such kind words from someone who has been kind to my work at Folded Word. (My books are still for sale at Folded Word, and I still have copies of An Amateur Marriage available from me directly if anyone is interested).

Speaking of writers and such interacting there are some great interviews in Sliver of Stone Magazine.

Also on the writers and/or poetry side is that I finished Hayden Saunier’s book Tips for Domestic Travel. I’m not sure if I picked this one up because I’d read Hayden’s work in a literary magazine or if I ordered it from Black Lawrence Press when I submitted my manuscript for publication consideration. In either case I always find it fascinating to read someone’s first book, especially a first full length collection because so many of us are mining through the past to create those. One of Hayden’s poems Flip Doll: Red Riding Hood really resonated back to me because I’ve also written a poem about that say Red Riding Hood Doll. How many of us wrote about that doll? Maybe there is an anthology in that . . .

As always feel free to comment on my work and/or to post and discuss your own (or link). All will be taken down one week from today. I’m going to try off and on, also, to post writing prompts during November since a lot of people are doing variations on NaNoWriMo. So here’s a picture of one of these flip dolls. Mine look a bit different. What would you write about her?

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35 thoughts on “Thursday Poem Share”

  1. I wanted to be Laura! I knew what you were talking about right away in this poem and I love it! Recently, I read a poem about someone’s experience reading Charlotte’s Web and it made me think differently about poetry written about other works. This reminded me of that…thank you.

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  2. I am soooo happy for you, that you are writing, Jessie. :) I can tell it makes you happy too! And what a poem! I loved Half-Pint, and didn’t really catch on fully until I read it a second time after the comment from Christin. duh! Then I loved it all the more. I really kind of like it as a prose poem, but do you plan on breaking it into lines? The ending, well, that got to me . ..but it is good!!! That’s good when what you write evokes strong emotion!
    I wrote something from the challenge to write a chant poem at Robert Lee Brewers, I didn’t think I was going to, but this just fell out of me. What a surprise! :) The title isn’t set yet. . . and of course, always thankful for your ideas!

    –and this poem went out for a sandwich

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  3. I love this poem. Can totally relate. Also, your poem about the red riding hood flip doll is one of my favorites. (While Mom Watched Bewitched, I believe?) The last lines of both of these poems just hit me in the gut. That’s good.;-)

    Last night, around 2 AM, I proclaimed, “I’m going to do the PAD variation in honor of NaNoWriMo!” Hmmm. So far today, I’ve slept until 2 PM and then talked on the phone until 4 PM. Ha ha. It’s not laziness, it’s just the reaction I have when I have the girls five days in a row. LOL.

    I wrote a couple of poems, and a few drafts this week, which is progress for me too. The one I’m going to share is really the only finished thing. I’m still working on a lot of revision, and submission and re-submission. Hopefully all organized and up to date this weekend!

    Again, this is one I did for my Tuesday prompt. I’m just not completing enough to have a choice, but I also like the feedback I get here, which I don’t get on the blog.

    –this poem has some business to take care of

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    • Love this Val, the details ( I know, I already said that!) but also how it makes me think about wholeness and emptiness. The ending really grabs me. Good , good work and best wishes as you join the PAD challenge. I’m not sure I’m going to this year, but we’ll see!

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      • Thanks again, Debbie.

        Yeah I don’t know if I’m going to do it or not. I mean I didn’t write anything for today yet! :-D Maybe just a haiku everyday or something. I have to look around at some blogs and get inspired to participate.

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        • Thanks for the haiku idea, Val! Maybe I could do that . . .maybe. :) I do like challenging myself . .. and really kind of need it, or I don’t try as hard as I could.

        • I don’t try as hard as I could either, but also like challenge, so…. I guess since on RLB’s blog he will be providing prompts everyday, it would be easier? I dunno. I am such a commitment-phobe. lol.

    • I think I’m going to sort of do the challenge as well. Not sure if I’ll post all of them like I’ve done in the past. Don’t want to make a formal commitment because I have SO much going on this month. I know, that is part of the whole point of the challenge…

      Val this one is GORGEOUS you had me at the sun brimming in those bowls :) I think this one is totally ready to submit.

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      • Thanks, Jessie! Glad you liked it! My submissions folder is filling up again, finally!

        I checked out Robert’s blog on the WD site, the prompt today is from Khara House about the moon, and I have a beginning and an ending but no middle! lol. So now I am only a poem and half behind. ha ha. I think I’m going to at least try to do it everyday. –and Jessie, yes, if you can’t find the time to do it, I’m pretty sure you’re excused!! ;-)

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        • Yay Val! I was smiling at your commitment phobia. :) I kept your haiku thought in mind and came up with something a little longer than a haiku for the day 1 prompt. But nothing about the moon yet. I’m so glad you got something!

        • I am at least trying to draft something each day or writing something like – hmm, I have no ideas today. I just don’t think I have time to share them all! That’s part of why it is good to have a physical notebook again instead of just a digital one.

        • True. When I actually sit down to write the poem, or even draft it (with a tentative form) I have to use my computer because writing by hand is just too slow, but when I’ve got all of these ideas, or a line pops into my head, or a topic for a poem, it’s just pointless to type it in somewhere, and that’s why I like having notebooks too. Also good for jotting down words I don’t know — or know and want to use– while I’m reading..or any notes really while I’m reading. I don’t think I could ever go completely digital.

          Well, it’s day 3 and I have one poem finished. LOL

  4. I like your poem, Jessie, but, as you know, I like them better after you work with form. I do think your first line is strong.

    This week was serendipity. I wrote a poem on Tuesday, so I was ready. But the poem came to me pretty much finished. That never happens to me. So I submitted it to a litmag Tuesday about noon. When we got home from running errands, guess what? I had an acceptance on this very same poem. My poems was written, submitted, and accepted the same day. And that’s why I don’t have my poem this week, teacher, believe it or not.

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  5. Love both of you Val and Debbie’s work. Always do. Great strength here…

    PS, if it is okay Jessie… Annapurna is looking for food (anything related) poetry, prose and flash, even art or photography for the a Thanksgiving launch! Submit today girls and boys…

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  6. Great guys, I look forward to seeing your work come our way!

    Guys I did write a Flash Fiction piece a few days ago you can go read “Lof the Silver Goats of Kohala Lava Desert’. Jessie is right, it is hard to think when you are running all over a new place. Debbie I am alright, we missed the hurricane action because we are still here, leaving tonight, but I am praying and thinking about all of my friends and hubs family who have been affected. My son and house came out unscathed. Same thing happened in Irene last year.

    Jessie I am so sorry about your dad. I lost my parents in 04, a year after we lost Robert’s dad and step dad to cancer and then my Anelisa in 00. I am thinking about you…hugs

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    • I can’t seem to get the link to work? The new one below either. Weird. Glad you guys are getting back home. I love how easy it was to donate money to Red Cross via cell phone.

      I’m trying to think of how to do a tribute on my blog to my father’s memory, but not sure what to say yet. Thank you. There is a lot to take care of, but I’d rather be busy.

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