Poetry
A bit of green
Monday, March 16th, 2009The First Taste by Patrick Hammer, Jr. 2009 The winter light goes quick. Stars and moon cover up their face. Night trails its fingers in blank blindness through the trees. Night offers nothing to the eye. No shadow even of what moved earlier in each dark corner. The night fastens a long black caul to [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Found Poetry
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Found Poetry is the rearrangement of words or phrases taken randomly from other sources (example: clipped newspaper headlines, bits of advertising copy, handwritten cards pulled from a hat) in a manner that gives the rearranged words a completely new meaning. Be creative and read your own Spam mail subject lines (please don’t open them – [...]
Poetic Spam? The Quest for Inspiration
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.” ~ Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist Where do you find your inspiration? Some people pull it deep from inside them. Others glean it from life experience. Or you can find it on the side of the road. When you are ready to express [...]
Who am I?
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006The rubble left behind. The pile of rocks is where I used to live. Photo by Sandra Lee Schubert © All Rights Reserved, 2006 I have been thinking a lot about identity. What defines a person? Is it our DNA, where we grew up, or is it the family we are born into? I have [...]