SEASONS #2: Palettes #2
For an art journal challenge at The Lilypad. The template is from Scrapping With Liz. Elements from Anna Aspnes, Jen Maddocks, Just Jaimee, Rebecca McMeen, and Michelle Godin. The fonts are An Unfortunate Event, Air Conditioner, A Little Pot, and Baffled. The small poems are mine.
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GRASSHOPPER
For Take A Word: a touch of purple. Elements from Courtney’s Designs and Created by Jill. The font is Hobbes. The small poem is mine.
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[ I remind myself:
Prompt: shelter
crows
collecting twigs
from the budding maple
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NaHaiWriMo is providing prompts for National Haiku Writing Month on Facebook. I'm posting mine on Twitter, and will do a weekly roundup here at Watermark. The first week's prompts were all on the theme of food:
this tuna casserole | delivered to my door by volunteers | tastes like childhood
that winter henhouse smell | the chickens' arguments | sharper than mine
cheese knife | if only we | could part so cleanly
why does no one say | *eat your ice cream* | Lettuce & Turnips & Beets, Oh My!
a bowl of rice | a cup of tea | and you
old cowboy milking | perfect aim | cats' open mouths
& an extra:
spilled milk | cat happy to help
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[UPDATE: I've been asked to post the text from my Life Lessons page; I'm putting it under the cut.]
... what I've been doing. While I've not been blogging. While I've not been writing.
Yesterday & Today, the scrapbooking class I've been taking from Ali Edwards, is winding down. This is the last week.
The most difficult assignment for me was this one – to take a picture of myself every day for a week, and do a layout using my own handwriting:
Template from Ali Edwards
Papers from onelittlebird, Shabby Princess, Reflective Scrapbooking, Honey Designs, Karla Dudley, Vera Lim.
Brads from Basic Grey, Anna Aspnes, Karla Dudley.
The "journaling" reads:
This week has been hedged in grief – my own, and all of Japan's. It felt odd to be smiling into mirrors during this time.
I have been reminded that pretending to be happier than I am works sometimes, if only briefly.
Looking at these images, I think: This woman looks familiar. I rarely see her. Does she resemble me? Do I know her?
17 March 02011 ~SB
This assignment was the most fun, to record my "life lessons":
Template from Ali Edwards
Paper from Anna Aspnes
And this one is where I began to feel that I can do something with this, beyond "scrapbooking":
Template from Ali Edwards
Papers from Anna Aspnes, except for the lower right, which is from Ali Edwards.
From here, I have moved on to something else. More later.
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what is poetry for?
this silence
A reminder: Jane Hirshfield is engaged in a conversation about poems, poetry, and other matters at The Well. This conversation is open to the public, and you are invited.
I've been reading Ted Kooser's The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets. Yes, I've been doing this for nearly twenty years, and I'm still a beginner.
I do recommend it for beginning poets; he offers lots of technical reminders they will find useful. He also offers some observations and opinions that I think apply to almost any creative endeavor -- and since I like what he says, I'm going to share some of it with you:
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before you came back
i didn't miss you
UPDATE 24 January: We seem to have begun a new poem dance. I'm bringing up the ones in comments; if you'd like to contribute (please do!) just add yours in comments and I'll bring it up, too.
Until I saw and heard,
I didn't know I understood.Posted by: endment
You're gone again
and I'm unsure,waitingPosted by: Cathy
you're back
you're here
-are you?Posted by: patrick
how did I live
before you were born?Posted by: Erin
I'm always facing
the wrong way with you
Posted by: Karla
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