For 2016 the challenge revolves around photos of "found objects"--a new one every day. Most are identifiable, but some are real puzzlers! Participants are supposed to use the objects as poem starters. An additional challenge is to use all your senses!
Since I love to play with images, I made sure to illustrate a few of the poems. Here are the ones that I like the best!
This next one I illustrated after it was posted for the challenge. I didn't send in the illustrated poem because I had to look through a lot of files to find my tomato photos and it wasn't ready in time for last Friday.
These next two are from this week's found objects:
The challenge continues through the month, so there's still plenty of time to participate if you haven't already.
Kimberley at Written Reflections will be playing host to the Round-Up this week. Please stop by!
Thank you for sharing so many of your amazing, illustrated found-object poems. I'm feeling especially drawn on this nostalgic weekend to the words and image of "Mama Planted a Garden." The last line's motherly advice (One person's weed is another one's flower!), which I especially love, reminds me of an analogous expression spoken all the time by my father ("One man's meat is another man's poison.") God bless you, and thank you!
ReplyDeleteOr, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." Point of view is everything.
DeleteI love the juxtaposition of the image and poetry - I only ever manage to do that using an app - and taking photos of book pages - but this post elevates that to different level of art altogether. Loved seeing Linda's photo as well - very eerie, I thought. I loved the tomato poem most of all - very succulent.
ReplyDeleteWriting about tomatoes in the cold of winter made me miss them all the more! You need to look into PicMonkey.com/, Myra! Then practice, practice, practice! After a while, it becomes so easy it almost feels like cheating.
DeleteYou've been busy, Diane! Lovely poems - thanks for sharing them. I might try a few found-object poems myself.
ReplyDeleteAs my late mother used to say, "Idle hands are the Devil's workshop." Please take part, we're not even half-way through the month!
DeleteI am mesmerized by your poetry. What a gift you have. I love the walnut face one, such an important message.
ReplyDeleteThank you, what kind thing to say!
DeleteWonderful crop of poems. Juicy tomato one has me drooling -- such great sensory details. The rope skipping one is brilliant too -- I fell right into the rhythm and wanted to join in. You are a master of pairing words and images -- great presentation of poems as always. :)
ReplyDeleteI look at the tomato in the photo, and then I look at the tomatoes I bought at the grocery store, and I think, Damn! It's zero degrees outside!
DeleteI always am admiring of your poems, Diane, and that you take me to new places with the POV. Love these, but my favorite is still "Before The Electric Fan". I've read Lisa See's Snowflower & The Secret Fan with students several times, and enjoyed that story very much.
ReplyDeleteI forgot about that book! And the secret writing on the fans. And the foot binding. An eye-opening book.
DeleteWhat a wonderful group of poems and pictures, Diane! Re. the fans: I've had the pleasure of getting to know a writer and historical presenter here in Beaufort, Kim Poovey, who dons authentic and/or hand-sewn Victorian duds and educates audiences about Victorian and Edwardian conventions. I've heard her explain the intricately detailed communications via fans more than once - oh, my! Amazing what young ladies and young gentlemen spoke without saying a word, just by the myriad placements of those frilly little fans and the way they were held.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see one of Kim's presentations!
DeleteI am so enjoying all the the poems and the new community around this project. Until this year, I've not fully committed to a poem a day in February with Laura. Glad I did this year! I like having a challenge that holds my toes to the fire and keeps me writing!
ReplyDeleteToes to the fire--absolutely right!
DeleteAll lovely poems! And now I'm longing for summer tomatoes and wildflowers!
ReplyDeleteI love the delicacy of wildflowers--they don't flash you like cultivated flowers do. And, I especially like when they show up in unexpected places. Bring on spring!
DeleteWhat a crop of images your poetry creates. Each one makes me smile in a different way. You bring Laura's found object project to another level with this work!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Julianne, I like to bring a smile once in a while.
DeleteWhat beautiful handiwork, Diane! I love how the tomato rests on the climatic stanza: "skin stretching... growing round and pendant," right before it bursts. What Tabatha does in matching poem to music, you do matching poem to image.
ReplyDeleteDiane, I so enjoy seeing these. I read some of them unillustrated on Laura's site, but the digital illustrations add a lot. Your skipping rhyme is so fun! I love how each day's photo brings out different perspectives.
ReplyDeleteLove reading these poems with the photos that inspired them. I especially enjoyed the tomato one--so nice to imagine warm ripe tomatoes on this frigid winter day!
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