tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79105482579552850852024-03-05T02:40:47.969-08:00Yakima Poetry Workshopdcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-41267242513613204342011-02-13T12:51:00.000-08:002011-02-13T12:53:00.544-08:00The Group<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUPsx6yvpnvlF0Jn7t63MAJZZWWDr-BUdt1D7bDTbtZk21Lnt9yUicAQ7XuzTunLoQYTP400lMFh-Y1T8z0EabC7ZPTjKwKfi3QuPVUX7l_SvjRWks2vysU_kY9icPb4iB5prcJDN514/s1600/IMG_6597.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 161px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUPsx6yvpnvlF0Jn7t63MAJZZWWDr-BUdt1D7bDTbtZk21Lnt9yUicAQ7XuzTunLoQYTP400lMFh-Y1T8z0EabC7ZPTjKwKfi3QuPVUX7l_SvjRWks2vysU_kY9icPb4iB5prcJDN514/s400/IMG_6597.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573279861075704402" /></a>dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-23151282491363343572011-02-12T07:49:00.001-08:002011-02-12T07:49:37.521-08:00Monty Python On Words<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-gwXJsWHupg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-91210648011096999082011-02-12T07:46:00.000-08:002011-02-12T07:47:01.861-08:00On Becoming a Poet<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MiGGagSRO88" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-19652869556815281242011-02-12T07:45:00.000-08:002011-02-12T07:46:05.185-08:00On Metaphors<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/duV2G5XTgQM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-25798395311775689572011-02-12T07:43:00.000-08:002011-02-12T07:45:03.045-08:00Beatrice<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vwnrswrTkhU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-52212586551339537542011-02-12T07:40:00.000-08:002011-02-12T07:41:01.843-08:00Bird of Paradise<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SB8UodV_DJg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-33788793801520758792011-02-12T07:35:00.000-08:002011-02-12T07:36:40.299-08:00Free Diving and LoveHere's an abstract for a <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/24/090824fa_fact_wilkinson">New Yorker Article</a> on the sport of Free Diving. Do some research and write a love poem.dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-54127894244063769202011-02-12T07:26:00.000-08:002011-02-12T07:35:05.480-08:00Why and What<div>Slow Down</div><div><br /></div>Pleasure/Therapeutic<div><br /></div><div>Addonizio says we should think about:</div><div><br /></div><div>Surprise</div><div>Music</div><div>Sufficient Thought</div><div>Syntax</div><div>The Parts Contribute to the Whole</div><div>Mystery</div>dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-33637462079550078672011-02-12T07:07:00.000-08:002011-02-12T07:09:36.076-08:00The Plan<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoTitle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Allied Arts Poetry Workshop:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>February 12<sup>th</sup>, 2011</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language:EN">Forms of Love</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language:EN">I love you but I'm married.<br />I love you but I wish you had more hair.<br />I love you more.<br />I love you more like a friend.<br />I love your friends more than you.<br />I love how when we go into a mall and classical muzak is playing,<br />you can always name the composer.<br />I love you, but one or both of us is/are fictional.<br />I love you but "I" am an unstable signifier.<br />I love you saying, "I understand the semiotics of that" when I said, "I<br />had a little personal business to take care of."<br />I love you as long as you love me back.<br />I love you in spite of the restraining order.<br />I love you from the coma you put me in.<br />I love you more than I've ever loved anyone, except for this one guy.<br />I love you when you're not getting drunk and stupid.<br />I love how you get me.<br />I love your pain, it's so competitive.<br />I love how emotionally unavailable you are.<br />I love you like I'm a strange backyard and you're running from the<br />cops, looking for a place to stash your gun.<br />I love your hair.<br />I love you but I'm just not that into you.<br />I love you secretly.<br />I love how you make me feel like I'm a monastery in the desert.<br />I love how you defined grace as the little turn the blood in the<br />syringe takes when you're shooting heroin, after you pull back<br />the plunger slightly to make sure you hit the vein.<br />I love your mother, she's the opposite of mine.<br />I love you and feel a powerful spiritual connection to you, even<br />though we've never met.<br />I love your tacos! I love your stick deodorant!<br />I love it when you tie me up with ropes using the knots you<br />learned in Boy Scouts, and when you do the stoned Dennis<br />Hopper rap from <i>Apocalypse Now</i>!<br />I love your extravagant double takes!<br />I love your mother, even though I'm nearly her age!<br />I love everything about you except your hair.<br />If it weren't for that I know I could really, really love you. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="author" style="background:#F7F7F4"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria;mso-ansi-language:EN">by <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Kim Addonizio, from <i>Lucifer at the Starlite</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria">Let’s start by expanding the word:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">The bishop tells me every breath<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">comes from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I couldn’t see it,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">until I broke the back<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">of my own betrayal of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Evil<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">is an impulse of love breathed wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">The flip side of all we are is good.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Every act is an act of love.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">From “To My Children: A War Story” by Jim Bodeen (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Impulse to Love</i>)</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Here’s how PBS breaks it down in “The Mystery of Love”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Friendship, Community, Romance, Divine, Family</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Let’s start there with some lists.</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Now, let’s add:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Landscapes, activities, animals, times of day</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Now let’s add:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Secret places only you know about, months, seasons, years of your life,</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">And:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Food/meals, tastes, scents, sounds</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Finally:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Writers, books, words</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Come back to these lists for inspiration during the workshop and later.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Introduce yourself and three things from different parts of your list.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">How I got here. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Blog with links and more to look at.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Love poems, but lots of ways to see love and even some non love poems.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: Cambria">The poet Marvin Bell says<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">, Learning to write is a simple process: read something, then write something; read something else and write something else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And show in your writing what you have read</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: Cambria">He also says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">You do not learn from work like yours as much as you learn from work unlike yours.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">The schedule:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Something Like This:</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">10-11:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Two sets of prompts (six-eight prompts total?)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Explain prompts, writing time, sharing time x2.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">11-12: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Two sets of prompts. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">12-1: Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">1-2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Two sets of prompts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">2-230:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Revision tips, polish a piece<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">230-330: Final two sets of prompts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">330-4: Getting the words into the world.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">So, Love Poems. Romantic love. High School. Amy. Now.</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">It makes me uncomfortable to talk about any other romantic love, but I’m going to try to take some risks and give myself the freedom as a writer to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">As a group, we have to pretend we’ve just flown in from hiking the Appalachian Trail.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Good, conflicting advice from Rilke:</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria;mso-ansi-language:EN">Don’t write love poems; avoid those forms that are too facile and ordinary: they are the hardest to work with, and it takes great, fully ripened power to create something individual where good, even glorious, traditions exist in abundance.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria;mso-ansi-language:EN"> So rescue yourself from these general themes and write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty – describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">But, Rilke, too:</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Therefore, dear Sir, ….believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><br />(<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1208289">Letters to a Young Poet</a>)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; "> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Cambria">Nikki Giovanni reflects on what it takes to write a love poem:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Cambria">“5-If I could give just one piece of advice about writing a love poem I would remind the writer that love is about the lover not the beloved. It’s about how you feel not how he responds. That should free you to set your heart on your sleeve; no one is going to knock it off.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Cambria">“4-Everything about love and life is the simplicity of it. The most important thing to keep in mind is to be clear. The Dells sang <em>Love Is So Simple</em> and I think they are right. Nat ‘King’ Cole sang <em>I Love You (for Sentimental Reasons)</em>; clear as a bell. Cole Porter wrote You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To. Classic. All of them. Clear. You can feel the longing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Cambria">“3-The most common writing mistake, period, is complication. The reader does not want to figure out what you mean. Neither does your beloved. Prince says <em>I Want To Be Your Lover</em>. Boom. You know where you stand.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Cambria">“2-There must be an internal rhythm to a love poem; the desire must come out. The mistake a lot of people make is to over-think the poem. To reach out for images when just letting the longing of the heart come through would be sufficient.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Cambria">“1-If someone writes you a love poem you’d have to be an idiot to say it was not a good poem. That’s like someone saying ‘I love that dress on you’ and you saying ‘What? This ole thing?’ The proper answer is a sweet smile and a thank you. If you have feelings for that person you can always blush.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Cambria">Giovanni concludes, “Writing a good love poem is like being a good lover. You have to touch, taste, take your time to tell that this is real. The Supremes say <em>You Can’t Hurry Love</em> and you can’t fake it, either.”</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; "><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Cambria"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; ">Finally:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Let the beauty we love be what we do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: Cambria">by Jelaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks</span></p> <!--EndFragment-->dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-16959248831245933562011-02-12T07:05:00.000-08:002011-02-12T07:06:41.504-08:00Givens, Other<div><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Burned out on love poems?</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Start with a line from someone else</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "> and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>a.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Rewrite it in your own words, based on your experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>b.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">or Change one word.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>c.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">or Use the same first letter for each word, but change the words.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>d.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">or Use the first line as your last line.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; ">From Tom Aslin’s<i> Moon Over Wings</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">When I walk from the house to the car<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">I lift the lid from a small, wood box<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Over the phone my mother…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">You never knew my friends and I would sneak away (letter to someone who’s dead.<span> </span>In it make a confession)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Just once, I want to face…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">The fiercest window is the mirror.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">I find my father in his recliner.<span> </span>He says…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">The truth is I have a daughter…</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">From Ray Carver’s<i> Ultramarine<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">By the time I came around to feeling pain and woke up<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">There isn’t enough of anything as long as we live.<span> </span>But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance, prevails.<span> </span>It’s true, I’m happy now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Awakened this morning by a voice from my childhood that says, Time to get up, I get up.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">He was never the same, they said, after that.<span> </span>And they were right.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">The four of us sitting around that afternoon.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">From Sherman Alexie’s <i>Face</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">The doctor tells me my father’s story<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Let us remember the wasps</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">From Ted Kooser’s <i>Delights and Shadows<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Today you would be ______years old<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; "><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Just now</span></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>2.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Start with a title<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>a.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Write a long title with lots of specific information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>b.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">or Write a poem for the end of something with the word “Last “in the title.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>c.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">or Name a specific time and/or place in your title.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>d.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">or Title your poem, “On Turning________”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>3.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Start from memory:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>a.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Write about a first experience;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>b.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">or write about where you were and what you were doing when a major new event happened;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>c.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">or write about something you wish you could remember more clearly and try to imagine what you can’t recall.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>4.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Start from the next thing you see</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>5.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Expanding the sentence<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>a.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">write an opening sentence.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>b.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Now, delete the period, add a comma<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>c.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">and then add one of the following words or phrases to your sentence: but, or, and, like, as if, as though, although, because, when, in spite of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>6.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Write about a place that used to be yours</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">—write about the senses, then write about the emotions.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span>7.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">List your various selves</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">, including their hopes and fears.<span> </span>Make three lists: Past, Present, Future (hopes), Future (fears)</span></p></div>dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-16249069848978546232011-02-12T07:01:00.000-08:002011-02-12T07:05:24.574-08:00Givens, Love Poems<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoSubtitle"><span style="font-size:24.0pt">Givens</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Cambria">Set One:</span></u></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Shards of Memory (From Kowit)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Around 1981, 1953, 1978, 1979, 1972, 1962, 1969, 1963 etc<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Do this with people you have kissed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">c.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Sharpen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">You are…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Write a detailed description of an object:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>a boat, a tree, a bottle, a shoe etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Make it vivid for the reader.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Begin the poem with “You are…” and imagine a loved one as that object.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Common Objects:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>List several objects around you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Next, choose two of those objects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The first object is in love with the second object.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What are the object’s inner lives like?</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Mom Told Me Every Story But This One<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">I married him that day in class/And never said a word</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Cambria">Set Two:</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">To My Fourth-Grade Love (Margaret Chilton)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">For me, it’d be 3<sup>rd</sup> Grade, Sunny Senters</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">You, part two<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Instead of an extended metaphor, try a list of them<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-1.5in;mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span>i.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">You were….You were….You were….</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-1.5in;mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-1.5in;mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Cambria"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; ">Read “Homage to my hips” by Lucille Clifton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And then write a sexy homage to a body part.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:99.0pt;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">If only we could like each other raw.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">If only we could love ourselves<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">like healthy babies burbling in our arms.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">If only we were not programmed and reprogrammed<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">to need what is sold us.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Marge Piercy</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Riffs for My Father (What I Won’t Forget)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Cambria">Set Three:</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">You’re Beautiful Because…I’m ugly because….(with Audio)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l7 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">The poem does not have to go back and forth <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">exactly</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l7 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Try sestets</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Neruda wants to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l7 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">I want to do with you what _________ does to _____________<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l7 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">I want to do to you what a _____________ does to a ____________</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Brainstorm a list of mundane actitivites not usually thought of erotic—washing the dishes or the car, mowing the lawn, going to the dentist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Now, make a list of nouns associated with that activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Then make a list of verbs and adjectives that you associate with sex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Stir everything together, and make the mundane activity sound positively orgasmic.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Strawberries:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There was nothing better/than watching my father/slice strawberries into a soup bowl/</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Cambria">Set Four:</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">The Changed Man (Woman):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If you were to hear me…If you were to see me…Because of you I….Because of you I’m...I’ve become a changed man.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Try tercets</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">My Heart<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">That Mississippi Chicken Shack<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Load it up with sharp/quick metaphor</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Cambria"></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Quick Muse “The Act”</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Do the above exercise but this time eroticize a landscape, like Hillman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A field or rocky bluff will do, but also try something nontraditional—a scrapyard, an empty parking lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Again draw your nouns from the landscape, your verbs and adjectives from sexual words.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Cambria">Set Five:</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Ex-Boyfriends (or Girlfriends)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo5"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Try it in tercets</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">He Attempts to Love His Neighbors<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo5"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Permeable</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Magellan Street 1974<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo5"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">This is the year you….Two stanzas looking back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Last, short stanza, in present day?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">The Problem Was</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Cambria">Set Six:</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Love Stinks:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What does love look like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sour milk, a dead or dying animal, rotting plums, a casino under the wrecking ball?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Write about a relationship that didn’t work out, developing one or several images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Try “Love is” as a way to begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Bukowski says, Love is a dog from hell).</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Highway Five Love Poem</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Another Kind of Desire:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Now write a poem about a lust that is not erotic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Is there a food that you find sinfully delicious, a certain fresh spring smell or sight or piece of music that moves you rapturously every time you hear it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Perhaps it is a lust to lie quietly in a hammock in the courtyard of a house you haven’t seen for years, or for a cold glass of fresh water late at night, or a lust to hear the voice of your aging mother over the phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level2 lfo6"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Begin this poem with the phrase “stolen” from another poem in this chapter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For example, you might select, “All they had said…” or “Somewhere in a field…” or “When my body finally gives in to…” Use that as a jumping-off point. Do not preconceive this poem, but let it find it’s own direction as the writing proceeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level2 lfo6"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Book lust, Real Estate Lust, Red Wine Lust, Mercedes Lust, Rib Eye Lust…</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level2 lfo6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level2 lfo6"><span style="font-family:Cambria"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; ">Ekphrasis—Barnard’s Nudes and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Cezanne and the Love of Color.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Cambria">Set Seven:</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo7"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Daily I Fall In Love With Waitresses/Mechanics.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level2 lfo7"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Who do you fall in love with “daily”?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level2 lfo7"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Barista? UPS Guy? The child walking home from school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The house on the corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The wind in the birch next door.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level2 lfo7"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level2 lfo7"><span style="font-family:Cambria"></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">I love you—not</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level2 lfo7"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Write an ironic “I love you” poem:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I love the way you never return my phone calls, I love you when you invite me to a party and then ignore me all evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo7"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">What Do Women Want? (try <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Men</i>, try crossing genders?)</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo7"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">For the Life of Him and Her<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level2 lfo7"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Try it in long line quatrains<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level2 lfo7"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">Try it with repeating words at line ends (party, wear, party, wear etc)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto"><span style="font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Cambria">Set Eight:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Cambria"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; ">Go back and find one from the list</span></p> <!--EndFragment-->dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910548257955285085.post-86974484900296240122011-02-12T06:57:00.000-08:002011-02-12T06:58:37.200-08:00Love Poem Workshop Links<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: Cambria">Kim Addonizio:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: Cambria"><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16213">What Do Women Want?</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: Cambria"><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2010/02/04">Ex-Boyfriends</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2010/05/22">My Heart</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2010/07/27">Forms of Love</a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Writer’s Almanac Love Poems:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2003/02/01">To My Fourth Grade Love</a> (Margaret Chilton)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="Cezanne%20and%20the%20Love%20of%20Color">Cezanne and the Love of Color</a> (Stephen Dobyns)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/01/18">Daily I Fall in Love with Waitresses (Eliot Fried)</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:115%; mso-ansi-language:EN">"<a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/02/08">Daily I Fall in Love with Mechanics" by Susan Thurston.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:115%; mso-ansi-language:EN"><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2003/12/16">He Attempts to Love His Neighbors (Alden Nowlan)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:115%; mso-ansi-language:EN"><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2007/09/18">Highway Five Love Poem (Ruth Swartz)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:115%; mso-ansi-language:EN"><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/02/15">Love Poem (Donald Hall)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:115%; mso-ansi-language:EN"><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2005/02/12">Love Poem (Linda Pasten)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june07/lovepoetry_02-14.html">Married Poets Craft Love Poems by the Clock</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Here’s their prompt from Quickmuse:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">THE ACT<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">By William Carlos Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">There were the roses, in the rain.<br />Don't cut them, I pleaded.<br />They won't last, she said.<br />But they're so beautiful<br />where they are.<br />Agh, we were all beautiful once, she said,<br />and cut them and gave them to me<br />in my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.quickmuse.com/archive/landing.php?poem=171tkdpUay54elBSGHiHPikvXnmTc0">Brad Leithauser’s poem</a><br /> <br /> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.quickmuse.com/archive/landing.php?poem=171tkdpUay54elBSGHiHPikvXnmTc0">Mary Jo Salter’s poem</a> on the same prompt</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">It might be better to call this, A Big Bag of Tools:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://htmlgiant.com/craft-notes/moves-in-contemporary-poetry/">Moves in Contemporary Poetry</a>[</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">From the Poetry Foundation:<br /><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=182917">How to Write Love Poems</a> with Adrian Blevins, Rebecca Hoogs, Cyrus Cassells and Craig Arnold.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">And <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/love-poems/index.html">Love Poems</a> of all stripe.</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: Cambria">Simon Armitage, <a href="http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=90">“You’re Beautifu</a>l</span></p> <!--EndFragment-->dcphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02784912398020871391noreply@blogger.com0