More SPS

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
~ Stephen Mallarme


Sharing some more from the Summer Poem Swap today.

Heidi's poem below (for Diane) was inspired by a photo by Tomasz Gudzowaty

Shaolin Conversion
by Heidi Mordhorst


Here is one Violet gave Diane:

Igneous Inspiration
by Violet Nesdoly

“Your resonant sources … you must
hunt them out and feed your poems
with them, not necessarily as topics,
subjects or themes, but as the vital force
that fuels your poems.” – Linda Gregg

Dormant dreams heave, push
inner tensions mount
heat of old embarrassments
teenage crushes
remembered triumphs
regurgitated regrets
first love, last hate
passions glowing still
gather, melt, coalesce, build
to a mantle plume
of writhing, bubbling
red-hot inspiration

that finds a pencil
pen or keyboard vent
extrudes lava
no longer recognizable
as your particular history
of libraries, children, cats
cools to new wordscapes
as unexpected and exotic
as the glassy obsidian
that in another life
was granite, mica, quartz.

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From Diane to Violet:

Preschool Art
by Diane Mayr

What is it about rainbows
& butterflies that thoroughly
engage these innocents
and compel them to
produce pages filled
with unnatural spectral
arches and psychedelic
winged creatures in color
combinations no god
would think to put together?
Could it be that enchantment
is a fundamental goal of art?

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And this poem is for Katya:

A miracle of ink
by Tabatha Yeatts

words buzz around sweet petal centers,
tumbling fuzzily from one
to the next
to the next,
gathering meanings,
stories,
sipping inky nectar
and dropping letters
spiky black
into waxy combs
sealed gently
until
ready to be cracked open
and sucked dry.

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Thank you for letting me share your poems, Heidi, Violet, and Diane!

Today's Poetry Friday round-up is being hosted by On the Way to Somewhere.