As August began, the Inklings sat side by side in real person in the WhisperShout studio of our own Heidi Mordhorst. Linda Mitchell provided junk journals and collage materials. I knew this Poetry Friday would be an Inkling challenge given to us by Molly Hogan involving maps in some way.
So I played with paper, paint, pictures, and words. This is what happened. I like it. I don’t understand it, but I like it.
I am reminded of one of my favorite poems by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Here are links to other Inkling poems. Check them out:
Heidi at my juicy little universe
Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading
Catherine at Reading to the Core
Molly at Nix the Comfort Zone
Linda at Another Word Edgewise
Reflections on the Teche 
as one who loves Maps, I absolutely adore the map collage and poem. It makes me think of the postcard, poetry fest, and how this would be a great way to create small collages onto postcards. I was in a craft store recently and saw that there are travel stickers and travel, scrapbook papers with miniature motifs on them and now you have inspired me to go back and think about getting some of these materials and simply stopping what is going on around me and creating. Thank you for this inspiration from the inklings
I could not fix my punctuation and capitalization – I don’t know why
Yay to more art about travel and maps…the metaphors are so rich and timeless.
oooooh, I love that messy background underpinning the beautifully arranged words. Isn’t it grand that you have created something that’s felt more than understood? That’s poetry, baby! (said in my best Heidi voice). I think my summer has been a wild fly by! I so look forward to the next one, already.
Unexpected tears jumped into my eyes. I would definitely tear maps to be with the five of you again. (tear/tear…hmm…)