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Sometimes the Day is the Poem <3

Woke up hearing this[image error] It’s a song I sing to my students. Yep. The future’s in good hands❤

 

Rainbow Warrior – Martin Jondo

well dis one rainbow warrior

down ina babylon we´re chanting songs of freedom

and it go like dis brothers and sisters

said I am a rainbow warrior

rainbow rainbow warrior

lord I am a rainbow warrior

warrior of love now

we seh

war war dem fuss and dem fight

silly hypocrites well dem won´t unite

and I see dem fight a competion

well don´t dem know dis an impossible mission

but Jah love come to quench we thirst

we´ve enough of those dirty works

love a love a love a love a come quench we thirst

we´ve enough of those dirty words and

rainbow warrior

rainbow rainbow warrior

lord I am a rainbow a warrior

warrior of love now

so wah seh

so when I´m trodin´down in babylon

I just keep my heart so clean

so when I´m trodin´through the deadmans town

I just keep my love within

war war who fuss and who fight

is a murderer got blood in him eye

he´s down in a total illusion

feeling so smart ina devilious confusion

but a who concludes all the murders and crimes

is bringing peace and love and changing this times

well me and you well me and you

shall chant out more rhymes

toiling and spreading Jah wonders and signs and

rainbow warrior

rainbow rainbow warrior

lord I am a rainbow a warrior

warrior of love now

yeah once again we seh

said I am a

rainbow warrior

rainbow rainbow warrior

lord I am a rainbow a warrior

a warrior of love now

so weh weh so once again we seh so so

so when I´m trodin´down in babylon

I just keep my heart so clean

so when I´m trodin´ in the deadmans town

I just keep a rainbow within

said I am rainbow

said I am rainbow

said I am rainbow warrior in babylon

said I am the wickest said I am the strongest one

well I am a rainbow warrior in babylon

avoiding all wickedness in my heart on my tongue

oh love heh

we´re spreading love

yeah

we´re spreading love

yeah

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Porches, and Pictures, and Plans–Oh My!

 

 

13 May 2016

Headed off to teach a weekend Promptathon workshop at The Porches Writing Retreat[image error]

Make art about porches.

 

14 May 2016

Saturday morning at The Porches Writing Retreat, and we’re working on Voices.

Make art about the voice you hear down in the hall.

 

15 May 2016

I have a habit of collecting discarded photographs in thrift stores, those precious memories sold in estate sales, so many beautiful faces, so many voices, so many stories.

Make art about other people’s pictures.

 

16 May 2016

Had some sweet winged company.

A luna moth emerges from its cocoon with not long for this earth. The average lifespan is a week, during which time they have no means to eat (no mouths). Their week (and life) goal is simple: to reproduce. To make love, the strongest of human emotions.

Many observers believe this to be a reminder of the importance of love in our short time on this earth. Live and love to the fullest and enjoy every experience that gets thrown your way. 

Make art about Loving fully in the moment. 

 

 

 

17 May 2016 

Okay, so the garden’s cleaned up and turned over, but it’s pouring cold hard rain outside. So I guess I’m sewing, instead of planting today.

Make art about having your plans thwarted.

Monday Must Read! Allison Joseph, My Father’s Kites

 

This week, meet one of the most amazing writers and literary citizens in our community, Allison Joseph! Allison lives, writes, and teaches in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University.  She serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review, moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List, and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a summer writers’ workshop for teen writers.

 Her books and chapbooks include What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press), In Every Seam(University of Pittsburgh Press), Worldly Pleasures (Word Tech Communications), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP), Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press), My Father’s Kites (Steel Toe Books), Trace Particles (Backbone Press), Little Epiphanies (Imaginary Friend Press), Mercurial (Mayapple Press), Mortal Rewards (White Violet Press), Multitudes (forthcoming, Word Tech Communications), The Purpose of Hands (forthcoming, Glass Lyre Press), Corporal Muse(forthcoming, Lucky Bastard Press). Her next full-length collection,Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, has been accepted for publication by Red Hen Press. She is the literary partner and wife of Jon Tribble.

I go back again and again to Allison’s work, but especially My Father’s Kites.

Buy Allison’s Books!

My Father’s Kites

http://www.steeltoebooks.com/books/39-my-fathers-kites.html

Praise for My Father’s Kites

“‘Tell me about the poet,’ urges Allison Joseph in the very first line of her remarkable new collection — and it is with insight, honesty and extraordinary technical skill that she accomplishes exactly this. My Father’s Kites is a self-revelatory collection of carefully wrought, jewel-like poems that explore the often paradoxical complexities of family relationships. Her strategy is tightly linked to her remarkable expertise as a formalist — a gift that becomes most evident in ‘What the Eye Beholds,’ a series of sonnets about her father’s flamboyant life, his gradual ‘dereliction,’ his inevitable early death, and its poignant aftermath. The arc of this sequence, flanked as it is by graceful villanelles and rondeaus. I cannot think of another contemporary poet who has done a finer job of combining form and content, to dazzling effect.” — Marilyn Taylor

Soul Train

http://www.upne.com/0887482472.html

In Every Seam

https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=34548

Wordly Pleasures

http://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/joseph.htm

Imitation of Life

http://www.amazon.com/Imitation-Life-Carnegie-Mellon-Poetry/dp/0887483860

Voice: Poems

http://mayapplepress.com/voice-poems-allison-joseph/

Trace Particles

http://backbonepress.org/chapbooks/

Mercurial

http://mayapplepress.com/mercurial-allison-joseph/

Mortal Rewards

http://www.amazon.com/Mortal-Rewards-Allison-Joseph/dp/0692657045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463483270&sr=8-1&keywords=mortal+rewards+allison+joseph

Read More from Allison Online

20 Poems from Allison Joseph

http://www.culturalfront.org/2011/10/20-poems-by-allison-joseph.html

http://www.heartjournalonline.com/joseph/2013/12/1/two-poems-by-allison-joseph

http://atticusreview.org/september-featured-poet-allison-joseph/

https://sliverofstonemagazine.com/running-while-black-by-allison-joseph/

http://rlpoetry.org/extraction-allison-joseph/

http://www.bradley.edu/sites/poet/steel/poems/joseph.dot

Interviews

http://lunchticket.org/allison-joseph-poet/

http://www.thefourthriver.com/index.php/the-mark-of-real-life-an-interview-with-allison-joseph

http://www.midwestwriters.org/2014/06/interview-with-allison-joseph/

Hear Allison Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2TEGGSxUeA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BWP3KtEXpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5E1KynLY4

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

Daily Prompt <3 Two Lives

12 May 2016

“I called to say we have two lives/and only one of them is real.”~Claudia Rankine

 

Make art about the multiple lives we live.

 

Daily Prompt :-) Just a Little Gift

11 May 2016

I have a Creativity Promptathon Workshop Weekend coming up, and I always make small gifts for my participants. Nothing fancy, just something I made with my own hands. Small thank you for their trust and time. 

Make art about a gift someone has given you. Or about giving a gift. 

Daily Prompt <3 Did You Ever See the Rain?

10 May 2016

It’s another rainy day here in central Virginia, another in a line of nearly two weeks. The Japanese have more than fifty words for rain, and there are 140 more at this link in a great op-ed from the times.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/03/opinion/20110403_schott.html

My yard is a swamp. 

Right now, I’m thinking saturation, saturated, drenched, waterlogged. 

Make art about different kinds of rain, or words for rain, or saturation. 

Daily Prompt :-) Hands & Heading Off

8 May 2016

Under the weather and missing my mama this Mother’s Day, thinking about her hands–her mother’s hands, her gardening hands, her nurse’s hands. She never had a manicure. I can’t recall her ever having her nails painted at all, but man, it seemed the whole world rose from those hands. And now, I watch my daughter, a first-time mama, her hands so gentle and loving as she cares for my grandson. Yep, the whole world❤ That’s what it is. 

Make art about a mother’s hand. 

9 May 2016

So many graduation activities this weekend, last grades going in, so many of these angel babies heading off to next adventure. 

Make art about setting off into the unknown. 

Monday Must Read! Claudine Moreau: Dark Machines

This week meet Claudine R. Moreau, author of Dark Machines. Claudine is a poet who teaches physics and astronomy at Elon University where her biggest thrill is showing students the cosmos through a telescope.

Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Tar River Poetry, 34th Parallel, PANK, Neon Magazine, Iodine Poetry Journal, Oysters and Chocolate, The Pinch, Segue, The Bitter Oleander, Arsenic Lobster, The GW Review, and Pivot among others. She is currently working on a new collection of astronomy themed poems.

Buy Claudine’s Dark Machines!

http://www.amazon.com/Claudine-R.-Moreau/e/B007L2J2J0/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1462796595&sr=8-1

https://www.createspace.com/3760500

Claudine’s Website

http://facstaff.elon.edu/cmoreau/Claudine_R._Moreaus_Physics_Page/Prof._Claudine_R._Moreau.html

Read More from Claudine Online

http://www.physikgarden.com/interstellar.html

http://www.astropoetica.com/Spring10/cometgirl.html

http://pankmagazine.com/piece/no-witnesses/

Interview

http://www.artvilla.com/plt/poetnewsMay01.html

Hear Claudine Read

https://spaceslitmag.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/writers-reading-claudine-moreau/

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

Daily Prompt <3 Teach Your Children Well

7 May 2016

Thrilled and humbled and honored and NERVOUS

Friday Call for Submissions Love: Into the Void

Into The Void Magazine Seeks Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Deadline: June 25, 2016

“Into The Void Magazine is accepting all genres and styles for Issue One. We’re looking for short stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems that grab and enthral and refuse to let go. We prize heartfelt and genuine writing above perfect grammar and technique. Above all, we’re looking for writing that screams to be read. Previously unpublished writers stand as good a chance of being accepted for publication as others—it’s all about the writing. Some work that doesn’t make it into the magazine will be accepted for publication on our website. Published writers will receive a token payment.

Website: intothevoidmagazine.com