so-soThis was my #poetrychallenge2019 book for August. I gave this a so-so. The poetry wasn‘t bad, just underwhelming. There wasn‘t even one poem that stood out for me. I‘ve never read anything by this poet before. Honestly, I pulled this off the shelf because it had “map” in the title. I‘m a big map- head.
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It seems like the perfect night to sit on the deck and start my August #poetrychallenge2019 book! 🌄
from: a visit to my pantheon reveals a hole in the sky
I hope you‘re kissed tonight
for real, not like people at midnight on TV
pretending time is a dog
we‘ve taught to sit. I think I mean
we scream Happy New Year
as if we can tell the future
what to do, trying hard to look
as if we feel the way champagne tastes,
and I don‘t believe for a second
we‘ve got such beautifully lit
chandeliers inside us.
#poetrychallenge2019
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A Girl Sings to Death
A girl in an orange dress climbs
the spreading cypress and sings.
She hangs like a spider monkey
and looks at things upside down.
A red-tail perched in the crown calls
to her mate on the bell tower cross.
Death has been saving an earthly
squirrel for the hawk‘s children.
Death has been saving a snake
for them, it has a rat in its belly.
The girl makes a place in her song
for the cries and the wind listens.
From In Search of the Least Abandoned Constellation :
The reader's face is a child's rapt face. The book is her latest soul, disguised as a more or less acceptable concrete object. The child is happy. The afternoon, a novel.
#poetry #poetrychallenge2019 for March.
When I decided to read at least one volume of poetry a month for #poetrychallenge2019 I used the Book Outlet boxing day sale to pick up a bunch of random poetry books, based only on the title and cover. This was one I picked for the cover, and when I saw it on Maggie Stiefvater's shelfie the other day I knew I found my February pick.
Can anyone doing the #poetrychallenge2018 answer a couple of questions for me, please?
- Is it just reading one poetry book a month?
- Who is the organizer?
- Is there going to be a 2019 challenge?
The reason I'm asking is that I was planning on doing my own poetry challenge next year, but if I can join in with something other people are doing that would be a lot more fun.
