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May 4, 2017

Poetry Friday--Spark Postcard Exchange

The month of April saw another art postcard exchange organized by Amy Souza of SPARK: Art from Writing: Writing from Art. The exchange takes place between the quarterly SPARK challenges. (The next SPARK challenge will take place in May, I encourage you to participate!) For April I wrote two senryu (haiku format, but about human nature rather than Nature), and two cherita (a story told in three stanzas of 1, 2, 3 lines), and illustrated them digitally. In the past I decided upon a theme. In January, my theme was "tea," for October 2016, I used "October," last July, I used "endless summer heat." This time, I couldn't find a theme, so I wrote four unrelated poems. Three ended up closely related afterall!


Text:

April thoughts

they arrange to meet
in the park...

an antihistamine,
then his fancy can resume
its turning



Text:

he buys flowers
...she does not mention
it's the wrong day


Text:

morning sun

a spider's web
dripping with dew

only for a moment
does he hesitate
to brush it away



Text:

shasta daisy--
Fibonacci gets me to
"he loves me"

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

I'm heading out to the Mass Poetry Festival in Salem, MA. I'll be three days immersed in poetry! If I manage to take legible notes, perhaps I'll do a festival review next Friday.

I may not be able to reply to comments left here until I return on Sunday. Jama's Alphabet Soup is hosting the first Round-Up in May, stop by, and then have a great weekend!

17 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing your poems. I especially connect to flowers on the wrong day. Any day with flowers is a joy.

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    1. It sure is! That's why spring is my favorite season--flowers and birds.

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  2. Lovely postcards. They are in tune with the season and little gifts of thought, too. Have a great time at the conference. I wish I was going.

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    1. It's too bad you'll miss the Mass Poetry Fests. Have you been to any of the past eight? Put it on your calendar now for next year. It's usually the last weekend in April or the first in May.

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  3. Sounds like National Poetry Month hasn't really stopped for you! I especially love your spiderweb poem. Have a great time at the festival!

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  4. Love your postcard poems -- they all made me smile. I think the spider web is my favorite. Each has a subtle pause of recognition. Wonderful.

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  5. Your antihistamine line made me smile, in between sneezes. ;-)

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  6. Each postcard poem was a joy to read this Poetry Friday, Diane. Enjoy the poetry goings on in Salem!

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  7. Lovely combination of words and images. Each of them brings joy this rainy Friday.

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  8. Popping more Claritin as I read your antihistamine poem. LOVE them all! Christie @ https://wonderingandwondering.wordpress.com/blog/

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  9. Yes, the three flower ones make a nice little collection. Glad for the hesitation in the spiderweb one!

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  10. I don't know if you think of yourself as one, but you are an Artist with a capital A, Diane. The care you put into presenting your poems visually blows me away. The one about buying flowers on the wrong day is my favorite because of its layers of meaning. It touches my heart.

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  11. I would love to see your festival review. And, I'm intrigued with the cherita. I am unfamiliar with that form.But, yours are so good --- makes me want to give it a try. I love the calendar poem...flowers on the wrong day. Makes me smile and cry at the same time.

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  12. Every one beautiful--but I like the antihistamine the best. Ah, human nature!

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  13. Love these, Diane - not only the words, of course, but the art pairs perfectly.

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  14. They all seemed tied together via nature and flowers. I connected with the "morning sun," and "shasta daisy," I've always been awed by the Fibonacci pattern in sunflowers!

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