FEBRUARY POET'S PEN SUMMARY & NEXT MEETING
 
 
 
 
Poet's Pen is a dedicated time to share our own and other poets' works, to allow time for writing/workshopping, and for closing with reading of works in progress. Six people met on February 23 to listen, write, and read a variety of poems. Please join us on Monday, March 30th at 4:30pm for our next gathering. Check lopezlibrary.org or email Beth for more information.

Poems Shared
Beth shared her poem "Pond" (first line by Kenneth Steven)
I remember what it was like to barefoot that house
Each damp room a different abode
Kitchen enfolding us in potlucks and dancing stories
 
Pam shared her poem "Image Inseparable from Landscape" which is related to her upcoming display of photos and poems in the library case.
"stillness is an action"
 
Nikyta shared the poem "Necessary Trouble (In memory of John Lewis)" by Lynn Ungar
 
Heather shared the Preface to her identity poem
"all things dance to life's impermanence" 

Thirst by Mary Oliver
Thirst
by Mary Oliver

Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.

GGK shared "Cormorants" - "the sea was a muddle of birds"

Writing Time
PROMPT: Year of the Fire Horse and/or the lunar cycle
One meaning of the Year of the Fire Horse is disruption of the existing order. The last Year of the Fire Horse was 1966.
 
GGK and Pam wrote poems comparing and contrasting the 1966 and 2026 Fire Horse years. 
 
Nikyta wrote a poem in 3 parts: 3 bells.
 
Heather wrote a poem using the Chinese word for Fire Horse - Bing-Wu.
 
Becky wrote a poem with the same starting and ending line: "Today nothing happened."

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