We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)

1.11.18

Where my spirit is


Where my spirit is

More 'found' micropoetry 
(found in emails received)

grandson’s confirmation –
he’ll wear a white robe and stole
with symbols HE chose

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autumn leaves and deer,
a mountainside in a forest –
restful, once I get there

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a glorious, sunny day …
we expect gigantic waves,
logs tossed about

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I found a place 
to share in rituals,
light a candle 
and meditate – my poem 
is where my spirit is

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I've closed my wings
for the time being –
getting ready to fly


Linking to Poets United's Poetry Pantry #427

20 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness, these are WONDERFUL. I need to start watching my emails for poetic gems!

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  2. These made me smile, Rosemary! I know where a FEW of these came from. I love your found poetry.

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  3. What a great idea, micropoetry found in emails! I love the last one especially.

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  4. I absolutely LOVE the idea of one's spirit being in a poem...or even one's spirit BEING a poem. All is well.

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  5. I absolutely love these found poems Rosemary!❤️ "My poem is where my spirit is"... sigh.. lovely!😍😍

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  6. these have that "haiku" or tanka feeling going on .... which is interesting, and offer a brief "release" from the daily dailies .... a breath of fresh air .... :)

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    1. Yes, I was trying for that feeling. They are perhaps not quite true to those forms however; I'd have had to alter them too much from the original and thereby destroy the 'found' quality.

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  7. this must be fun!
    i am thinking, can i do this out of spam mails? i have lots of spams. :)

    once i have done some erasures out of newspaper and magazine articles and mailers. it was a good exercise.

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  8. Love them as a series actually... getting ready to fly.

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  9. what interesting emails you receive - are these erasure email poems? I like the waves and the logs most of all

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    1. No, not erasures as such, but extracting particular phrases, either unchanged or only very slightly rearranged.

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  10. I remember Mary's posting on FB about this. I thought it was a lovely and meaningful time.

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  11. These were all enjoyable. I feel and see the autumn leaves and deer spirit today. My poem is where my spirit is - I can truly relate to that and I do wish I had written that marvelous line.

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  12. "Restful when I get there" jumped out at me.

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  13. These are lovely...haunting, too. I can't help but read them as a sequence, a ritual read on a Sunday that is both prayer and journey.

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  14. Love these layered gems - the fourth one, in particular, reached out and touched a place in my heart.

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  15. They are all lovely. What you have done is shown us that poetry is all around us even in every things seemingly unimportant, that can be turned into verse that enraptures the reader.

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  16. They are so wonderful. I especially enjoyed...

    I found a place
    to share in rituals,
    light a candle
    and meditate – my poem
    is where my spirit is

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  17. Thank you for drawing me back from my weekend of intense Quakerese to find a presence in these poems from language that is so familiar I feel right at home! What individuals we all are! How filled with spirit and heart, expressing joy when way opens. Bless you for making poetry and being a poem, Rosemary!

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    1. Awww, thank you. (Big smile.) And I should thank all the friends who provided such great source material!

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