poetry thursday
I am moved to share one of my own poems today. In eighth grade, we had to create a book of poetry as a project for English. As I looked for old pictures and postcards to take with me for a class at ArtFest, I stumbled across this book of my own poetry. Here is one that resonated in this early morning hour.
A thanks to Kat for suggesting people create their own poem this week and participate in Poetry Thursday. Please leave a comment with a link to your blog if you did write a poem as part of Contagious Creativity!
I also want to share a link to a wonderful site I discovered tonight. Some of you have either shared and enjoyed poems by William Stafford. This is a site dedicated to raising awareness of the power of poetry in Stafford's memory/honor. I have only just begun to explore this website, but it already speaks to my heart. It is very inspiring...
And as always, if you would like to participate in Poetry Thursday, please share a poem on your blog. You can leave a comment here to let everyone know that you have posted one today. Also, if you want to be added to the list of participants, please send me an email (and if you sent me an email but you are not on the participant list, please send me a friendly reminder).
Happy reading!
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Poetry Thursday was a weekly poetry project that I created and then co-ran with another blogger back in 2006-2007. The site is no longer online.
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Reader Comments (32)
perfect timing to read this
just as i am getting up
and the sun is breaking through...
and wow...
you did that
at thirteen?
i liked the stretching trees
especially...
:)
this is a great idea, here's my link!
http://veritywrites.blogspot.com/2006/04/two-poems-about-lovers-for-poetry.html
Thank you here is my bit of creativity in poetry:
http://willows95988.typepad.com/tongue_cheek/2006/04/post_1.html
..Brava at 13 you already had a depth and flare and soulful heart!
Love the poem. I am going to see if I have poems from childhood still.
You want to know something weird? Not only did we grow up in the same area, but we have the same last name!
That's beautiful, Liz. And amazing that you wrote it at age 13!
I posted a poem today, but not one I wrote.
Liz, what a beautiful poem your little younger self wrote - how innocent and crystal clear our minds were back then :-). thank you for sharing that.
I'm a blog lurker who has taken the plunge this week and joined the bloggie sisterhood - Poetry Thursday is an inspired idea, and i'm happy to be able to join in too:
http://inkonmyfingers.blogspot.com/2006/04/poetry-thursday.html
until next week...
I posted a poem from a local author you might enjoy. I did not write anything this week. Your poem is lovely. Thanks for sharing.
i like the "trees stretchinbg" myself. it brought such an image of brown-barked delicacy to my mind's eye.
it's a great idea, posting something that you wrote years ago.
This was so wonderful! I can totally see you writing this at a very young age. Boy, you were a natural even back then. Excellent Liz!
I have my poem up for this week too.
Love,
a.
Wow, you wrote that when you were 13? I was writing horrible, horrible poems at that age. Journals full of them. (I've thrown all mine out.)
Wow, you wrote that when you were 13? I was writing horrible, horrible poems at that age. Journals full of them. (I've thrown all mine out.)
Look, it's the comment that's so good, she decided to leave it twice!
How wise at age 13; and perfect for today!
Sharing a William Stafford poem....
http://ascenderrisesabove.blogspot.com/2006/04/poetry-thursday-sepia-seepage.html
Thank you all! So much poetry shared already today.
But I have to say...please note: I did not share the poem that had this horribly repeatitive line "we have that special bond" or any of the bad poetry I wrote in high school about the boys I had crushes on that I have long since thrown away...I wrote some stinkers for sure...
I love morning poems. This one has a freshness. Lovely. Thank you.
I've posted a poem today.
What a nice walk through days gone by for you - thanks so much for sharing this beautiful poem! You were talented even then, girl!
I lost all my writing when I moved several years ago. I cannot find anything I have ever written! I keep hoping it is all in a box somewhere in the garage, a box which just has not been opened.
Hope your Easter weekend is a lovely one. :)
This is such a wonderful poem, thank you for sharing it with us!! Such insights amongst all the other angst of 13!
Thanks for the great email as well!
Liz, I love that you included your own poem this week! As William Stafford said himself once when he was speaking, "Everyone in this audience should be writing their own poems!" He has long been one of my most cherished writers.
nice, i dug into my poetry past today! (i linked back here for more poetry goodness)
great words to look back on,
very fresh :)
Mine is up, and I LOVE your poem that you posted!
I posted not one of my own, but one recently discovered. Too shy at this point to drag out poetry written by me. You are a brave woman! But then again it was lovely.
hi there!
I posted for Contagious Creativity AND for you! I'm really enjoying poetry Thursday - I feel like it's reawakening a part of me that I had forgotten about - the part that loves poetry!
P.S. What a lovely poem your wrote at 13! What a sensitive little soul you were (and still are)
xoxo
look at you! thank you for sharing this poem. wow! when i was in 8th grade i wasn't writing much at all. what a priceless collection.
wow your poem is great, it made me remember all of my old poems I have stored away somewhere. I'll have to get one and post it now ;) I just made this blogger so I can display my poetry. So check me out once a week I'll be posting a new one if not more.
What an amazing young poet. Thanks for introducing her to us!