Our prompt was: โThe beautiful thing that just happened is…โ
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At Blackwater Pond โ by Mary Oliver
At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have
settled
after a night of rain.
I dip my cupped hands. I drink
a long time. It tastes
like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold
into my body, waking the bones. I hear them
deep inside me, whispering
oh what is that beautiful thing
that just happened?
Copyright ยฉ 2006 - 2010 Famous Poets And Poems .
Our prompt was: Start with “I will not apologize...”
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"This Here Flesh" byCole Arthur Riley
"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apol-
ogy. It's the audacity to face the demands of this world and
proclaim, We will not be owned.
We will not return to the chains that once held us. They are
brittle and tarnished from our tears, which made the flood.
Remember. You were never meant to prove your dignity. You,
whose flesh contains more bodies than your own. You don't
belong in the catacombs of restlessness, wandering from death
to death. Lie down with me in the pasture, where life is alive
and growing with the unapologetic slowness of a blade of
grass. What will become of us?
We will be free and we will be dreaming."
Credit: This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley (page 157)
Nos reunimos 3 participantes, desde Argentina y Nueva York.
El poema de esta sesiรณn fue โFortunaโ, escrito por Ida Vitale. Primero vimos el poema leรญdo por la poeta y despuรฉs leรญmos el poema dos veces a voz alta.
Un participante hizo la comparaciรณn a lo que estรก pasando las mujeres en Irรกn. Ellas no tienen estas fortunas. La poeta escribe en Uruguay, pero el tema es aplicable en todo el mundo.
La poeta esta agradecida de las cosas sencillas, pero cuando uno no tiene estas cosas, estos derechos, la vida es mucho mรกs difรญcil, especialmente para las mujeres (la poeta menciona el matrimonio y ser medida en cabras). Alguien menciono que uno valora las cosas cuando las pierde.
Una participante noto los tres versos finales. ยฟDe quiรฉn habla la poeta cuando escribe las ultimas lรญneas?
Descubrir por ti misma
otro ser no previsto
en el puente de la mirada.
Se supone que ella busca la mirada del otro. Como si el otro fuera un espejo. La mujer no prevista en los demรกs. Libertades que antes no tenรญa. Estรก hablando de lo que ya hizo, del pasado.
Tambiรฉn se notรณ el uso del verbo โserโ en la frase, โNo ser casadaโ. No ser casada no es lo mismo que no estar casado. Ella habla de existir. Este debate nos llevรณ hablar de la definiciรณn de
La propuesta de escritura fue โEscribe sobre tu fortunaโ. Los participantes escribieron en la sombra del poema. Los temas que surgieron fueron el concepto del tiempo y que lo hace a una afortunado. Las escrituras parecรญan parรกbolas.
Aquรญ, ahora alentamos a los participantes que, si asรญ lo desean, compartan lo que escribieron a continuaciรณn.ย Deja tu respuesta aquรญ, si deseas continuar la conversaciรณn sobre el poema de Ida Vitale. Pero antes, les recomendamos tener en cuenta que el blog es un espacio pรบblico donde, por supuesto, no se garantiza la confidencialidad.
Our prompt was: โWrite about what’s hidden or revealed in a shadow.โ
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Our prompt was: โWrite about a color that has made you weep. โ
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An Old Story by Tracy K. Smith
We were made to understand it would be
Terrible. Every small want, every niggling urge,
Every hate swollen to a kind of epic wind.
Livid, the land, and ravaged, like a rageful
Dream. The worst in us having taken over
And broken the rest utterly down.
A long age
Passed. When at last we knew how little
Would survive usโhow little we had mended
Or built that was not now lostโsomething
Large and old awoke. And then our singing
Brought on a different manner of weather.
Then animals long believed gone crept down
From trees. We took new stock of one another.
We wept to be reminded of such color.
Credit: poetryfoundation.org
Tracy K. Smith, "An Old Story" from Wade in the Water.
Copyright ยฉ 2018 by Tracy K. Smith.
Our prompt was:ย โWrite about whatโs left behind.โ
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Our prompt was: “Write an introduction to a season or Write about knowing it will come back.“
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First Fall byMaggie Smith
Iโm your guide here. In the evening-dark
morning streets, I point and name.
Look, the sycamores, their mottled,
paint-by-number bark. Look, the leaves
rusting and crisping at the edges.
I walk through Schiller Park with you
on my chest. Stars smolder well
into daylight. Look, the pond, the ducks,
the dogs paddling after their prized sticks.
Fall is when the only things you know
because Iโve named them
begin to end. Soon Iโll have another
season to offer you: frost soft
on the window and a porthole
sighed there, ice sleeving the bare
gray branches. The first time you see
something die, you wonโt know it might
come back. Iโm desperate for you
to love the world because I brought you here.
Credit: poetryfoundation.org
Maggie Smith, "First Fall" from Good Bones.
Copyright ยฉ 2017 by Maggie Smith.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!
For this session we read an excerpt from “Whereas Statements” by Layli Long Soldier, posted below.
Our prompt was: โWhereasโฆโ
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!
For this session we look a close look at the short animation film titled โBitzbutzโ byGil Alkabetz, posted below.
Our prompt was: โWrite or draw a time you felt eaten up inside.โ
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