2016 Found Object Poem Project: Day 22
Enjoy some birthday cake with me.
It’s Day 22 of our 2016 daily write-in. This year’s theme is FOUND OBJECTS. We have a new writing prompt for every day in February.
For those of you who are new to my blog, please read my introductory post about the February daily write-in. You’ll find more information and all of the Week 4 FOUND OBJECTS at this post.
PLEASE NOTE: This year, a few friendly bloggers have volunteered to host a day or two. Tomorrow’s post, which is DAY 23, will be at Jan Annino Godown’s blog, Bookseed Studio. Leave your Day 23 responses here, in the comments, or you can leave them at Jan’s blog. We will both make sure your poems get posted.
FOUND: STICK INSECT
Thanks to Poetry Friday blogger Buffy Silverman for finding this handsome master of camouflage for us today.
Mary Lee Hahn is looking at the symbiotic relationship between creature and tree.
Partners
You can’t see me.
I’m not here.
I freeze.
I blend.
I pose.
Glance away, then.
Lose attention.
I’m gone.
Gone where?
Tree knows.
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2016
Check out Mary Lee’s post here: http://www.maryleehahn.com/2016/02/found-object-poem-project-partners.html
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Remember when we wrote about moth eggs, all the way back during week one? Donna Smith’s poem reminded me of that prompt.
ONE With the Tree
I freeze on the tree
I am ONE with the tree
I AM the tree
To act like a tree
One must BE the tree
When I am the TREE
You don’t see me
I am the perfect
Camouflagee
Even my eggs like free-
Falling seeds
Drop from me
When I am
The tree
I AM the perfect
Camouflagee
Or am I
The tree?
©2016, Donna JT Smith, all rights reserved
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Carol Varsalona is backtracking and catching up on prompts (something I need to do also). You can find her Day 22, Day 21, and Day 1 poems at http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2016/02/daily-writing-workout.html.
hidden on a tree
game playing with predators
camouflage ante
©CVarsalona, 2016
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I’m going to attempt some formatting with Jessica Bigi’s poem. I like how the form resembles our stick insect.
Walking Stick
By Jessica Bigi
One
Two
Three
Pick
Up
Sticks
Walking
On stilts
Eating
French-fried
Sticks
Making
Silly
Pictures
Out of
Pretzel
Sticks
Laughing
Out loud
At the
Funniest
Stick
I have see
Walking on
Stick legs
Up our
Apple
Tree
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More poems to come!
DAY 23 FOUND OBJECT PROMPT (February 23 at Bookseed Studio)
Reminder: Tomorrow, we’ll be spending Day 23 at Jan Annino Godown’s blog, Bookseed Studio.
Interested in what we’ve written so far? Here are links to this week’s poems:
Sunday, February 21
FOUND OBJECT: Antique Sewing Machine
Poems by: Diane Mayr, Linda Baie, Jone Rush MacCulloch, Jessica Bigi, Matt Forrest Esenwine, Donna Smith, Carol Varsalona.
Note: You will find links to all of the Week 1, 2, and 3 poems at this post.
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