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Floor Lamp Waits [Poetry Friday]

February 28, 2019 By Laura

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Well, I dropped the ball on this one. This month, we Poetry Princesses wrote a mask poem. This one was MY choice! And yet, I didn’t get to it until this week. It’s funny how we schedule things in the future, picturing them […]

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Lunch in a Refugee Reception Centre [Poetry Friday]

January 31, 2019 By Laura

Lunch in a Refugee Reception Centre

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This month, Tanita came up with our challenge: a poem in the style of Marilyn Nelson’s “Minor Miracle,” about a small, miraculous thing you have seen or known. I’ll wait here while you read Marilyn’s stunning poem. All finished? So, although I’ve tried […]

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Anatomy of Typography [Poetry Friday]

January 3, 2019 By Laura

Anatomy of Typography

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Fantasy: As 2018 wound down, the Poetry Princesses thoughtfully pondered how to begin the new year… Reality: Thankfully, Tricia emailed us all last week and said, basically, Ack! Let’s write a poem to one the four images I’m sharing. Whew! Good thing she […]

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Cleaning Out My Locker [Poetry Friday]

December 6, 2018 By Laura

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This month, we needed a last minute change to our plans, and someone (I think Liz? It’s usually Liz who keeps us blessedly on track) suggested a list poem that had to use two of the following words: paper, stars, messages, promises, dirt, […]

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World Tour (After a Lucia Micarelli Concert) [Poetry Friday]

November 1, 2018 By Laura

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This month, our Poetry Princess challenge was to write a poem with an anaphora–a repeated, open-ended phrase.  Recently, Randy and I attended a concert by Lucia Micarelli, a wonderful violinist. (We saw her years ago performing with Jethro Tull.) Although I played violin […]

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spike roof shadow: Building Short Poems with the Poetry Princesses [Poetry Friday]

October 4, 2018 By Laura

Snowy Owl

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) So, this month, our Poetry Princess challenge was my choice! And I chose short poems (6 lines or fewer) about animals that had to include three words (or forms thereof): spike, roof, and shadow. I was inspired by two books: Myra Cohn Livingston’s […]

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Daydreams Through a Looking Glass – Collage Cento [Poetry Friday]

September 6, 2018 By Laura

Daydreams Through a Looking Glass

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This month, Sara chose a cento as our Poetry Princess challenge. Not just a cento, but a cento collage, in which we would each choose one word from a set of lines Sara provided from poet Agha Shahid Ali and then find a […]

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Afraid to Wish for Answers [Poetry Friday]

August 2, 2018 By Laura

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) You know, we Poetry Princesses organized our monthly challenges for this year at the end of 2017. And a sestina in July sounded just peachy. Really. Then…real life. My husband and I moved on Monday, and July was a month of frantic packing, […]

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Things I Will Miss When We Move – an Aphra Behn Poem [Poetry Friday]

July 5, 2018 By Laura

Things I Will Miss-rev

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) You know what happens when you collaborate? You stretch. You grow. You learn. Even if it’s not always a comfortable process, it’s well worth it! This month, our Poetry Princess challenge was an Aphra Behn poem. Nope, never heard of it. Turns out […]

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3 Limericks with the Poetry Princesses [Poetry Friday]

May 31, 2018 By Laura

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This month, our Poetry Princess challenge was limericks around the theme of birds and bees. Take that them any way you like;>) This was Tanita’s pick, and I was so glad she picked something short and fast, as I have been teaching at […]

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