Poetry Friday round-up is with Carol at Beyond Literacy Link
Challenges can be fun. Challenges can be…well…challenging. Donna Smith posted a challenge to write a poem using all the lines given out by the visitors to her blog. She collected the following lines:
Buffy Silverman: ferocious women who never bring you coffee
Donna Smith: always leave a wild song
Linda Baie: dreaming women do art in poetry
Buffy Silverman: where wizards and wolves rush by in a blur of green and gold and gray
Kay McGriff: ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones
Linda Mitchell: waking the world to a new day
Margaret Simon: steam that climbs like smoke from a fire
Carol Varsalona: fearless women reach out, connect, and find joy in life’s intertwined moments
Tabatha Yeatts: little chest to put the Alive in
Joy Acey: wear loose clothing and a smile
Jan Godown Annino: I feel like there should be more stories out there for girls, and I try to tell them
Mary Lee Hahn: ferocious women do not exaggerate
Brenda Harsham: make a ferocious dinner that eats masks, drips truth and saves softness for dessert
Keri Lewis: radical at their core
Kiesha Shepard: ferocious women would rather drink the wind
Diane Mayr: out of endurance, exaltation
One of the rules was to break the rules, so I did. I didn’t use all the lines.
Here is my poem:
Dreaming women
wake the world
reach out
to find joy in life’s
intertwined moments.They write stories
where wizards and wolves
rush by. Their stories
sing like steam
that rises, smoke from a fire–
a wild fire!Ferocious women
never bring you coffee.
They make a ferocious dinner,
save softness for dessert
and a smile.Take advice from us:
Ignore the awful times.
Dream on.
Leave a wild song.
Drink the wind.
To see other poetic responses, go to Donna’s site for the link up.
Now for a very important announcement: The winners of Here We Go! If you see your name here and you haven’t gotten an email from me, please send me your address by email.
1. Jane Whittingham
2. Joanne Duncan
3. Leigh Anne Eck
4. Linda Mitchell
5. Kimberley Moran
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