shafts of granite
inserted in their eyes
so they’ll twinkle—
sunlight reflecting
off a mountain of stone
TV documentary, Mount Rushmore, S. Dakota, USA
—ATPO, 20, January 2015
Showing posts with label stones/rocks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stones/rocks. Show all posts
Monday, February 1, 2016
Monday, March 4, 2013
Ekphrastic tanka: break, break, break
The subject of my tanka here is a Monet painting (see link to painting underneath poem).
Read about ekphrastic poetry at Atlas Poetica and The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog (which focuses on the craft and enjoyment of writing poetry).
break, break, break,
a cold sea’s crashing waves . . .
the grief
painted into
these rocks at Belle Île
Allusion to Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Break, Break, Break”
Claude Monet, “Rocks at Belle Île (The Pyramids of Port Coton),” 1886
Allusion to Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Break, Break, Break”
Claude Monet, “Rocks at Belle Île (The Pyramids of Port Coton),” 1886
—Atlas Poetica ("Ekphrastic Tanka" special feature), Nov. 24, 2012
Read about ekphrastic poetry at Atlas Poetica and The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog (which focuses on the craft and enjoyment of writing poetry).
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Smooth stones
smooth stones
so sensual
we must not only
touch them softly
but write about them also
—Simply Haiku, Autumn 2005
twigs&stones: A title I've had in my head for a long time, though it's not necessarily as unique as I'd hoped. E.g., when I Google, I find there's a similarly named viral video, a catchy folk-rock song (see link below), a gemstone hairpin company, etc. Ah, well. . .
We writers seem to love stones and mention them not infrequently in our poems and blogs. Is that how we think of our short poems, our realized moments, as stones both sturdy and delicate, anchoring us, delivering us from a tenuous world? Packed with an intensity of feeling we ourselves cannot easily contain?
The above entry was one of the first two tanka, or "tanka-like poems," I ever wrote. Admittedly, it's a little different (odd?); surely it violates a few "rules" and might not pass muster with some critics. Yet I had no problem getting it published originally, and someone else (a haiku editor at the time) once wrote me a very nice message about it. Above all, it said what it needed to say for me, and still does, so I guess I still kinda like it. ;)
we must not only
touch them softly
but write about them also
—Simply Haiku, Autumn 2005
twigs&stones: A title I've had in my head for a long time, though it's not necessarily as unique as I'd hoped. E.g., when I Google, I find there's a similarly named viral video, a catchy folk-rock song (see link below), a gemstone hairpin company, etc. Ah, well. . .
We writers seem to love stones and mention them not infrequently in our poems and blogs. Is that how we think of our short poems, our realized moments, as stones both sturdy and delicate, anchoring us, delivering us from a tenuous world? Packed with an intensity of feeling we ourselves cannot easily contain?
The above entry was one of the first two tanka, or "tanka-like poems," I ever wrote. Admittedly, it's a little different (odd?); surely it violates a few "rules" and might not pass muster with some critics. Yet I had no problem getting it published originally, and someone else (a haiku editor at the time) once wrote me a very nice message about it. Above all, it said what it needed to say for me, and still does, so I guess I still kinda like it. ;)
*Check out the Twigs and Stones video by Canadian band Siskiyou.*
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