Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
29 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in contronym, Poetry Tags: apology, bolt, bound, cleave, contronym, Daniel Stewart, dust, fast, left, mysophobia, OCD, peer, rare, sanction, single word with contradictory meanings, use a word 3x, weather
from Facebook this am
Sentences using some of these contronyms:
(Using a word 3x is supposed to imprint it on your vocabulary)
1 My daughter has mysophobia, and she’s getting a dose of it during this pandemic.
2 In my watercolors I frequently dust fine particles of color to suggest a texture.
3 The stallion bolted as soon as the bolt was secured!
13 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: art by JByron Schachner, bird on a tin roof, can't predict without bike in sky, floating formulas, polar bear at handle bars, weather, weather is like imagination
art by J Byron Schnacher
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weather is like i-
magination: can’t predict
without bike in sky
.
bird on a tin roof
polar bear at handle bars
floating formulas
17 Dec 2016 1 Comment
in Poetry, weather Tags: art by Nicolaj, between frigid and snow, No weather concerns, sandwich trip to Cape Cod, weather
art by Nicolaj
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no weather concerns:
sandwich trip to Cape Cod be-
tween frigid and snow!
18 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
in Guardian Angel, Poetry Tags: cosmos, Guardian Angel, Illustrator:Nicolaj, missile with my name, sharp on the look-out, through clouds, weather, wind
illustrator:Nicolaj
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sharp on the look-out
through clouds, wind, weather, cosmos
missile with my name
28 Apr 2015 1 Comment
in Family Tags: birdsong, Charles Mingus, creativity, empty thoughts too weak, from my face to Anniks's, Lao-Tsu, Luc de Claplers, luminous and spare, make the complex simple, plainness, polished core revealed, quatern, see the world, selflessness, simplicity, sky, Stanley Kunitz, translucent diadems, weather
From my face to Annika’s
2015
Quatern
Make the complex simple
awesomely simple;
that’s creativity!
translucent diadems.
Charles Mingus
Thoughts too weak:
make the complex simple;
empty them, start again:
they’re beyond cognition.
Luc de Claplers
Try for plainness
selflessness:
make the complex simple
polished core revealed.
Lao-Tsu
Birdsong, sky and weather:
luminous and spare;
look through them to see the world;
make the complex simple!
Stanley Kunitz
19 Jun 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: bark, cells proclaim perennial sifting of its elements, grows, Laura Purdie Salas, lichen, weather
lichen licks bark
like weather grows
cells proclaiming
our perennial sifting
of its elements.
08 Dec 2012 1 Comment
in Family Tags: blue, details, orange, red, sleepy, soul, sound barrier, Southwest, weather, westward
Southwest, orange, red and blue
breaks the sound barrier of my ears.
Sings and jokes; stretches, bends
small details ’til they’re snug; no fears!
Breaks the sound barrier of my ears:
flies above 30,000 feet of clouds:
hums its path ‘bove westward planes below.
Sings and jokes; stretches, bends
in cabin’s curves: accommodate each soul:
infants, old, and broken boned.
Small details ’til they’re snug: no fears!
the weather’s fair; the night sky drops its skirts
on sleepy tired folks who land and find their rest.
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 