Have you ever sent someone a poetry postcard? I sent five this year (first time ever) and here the ones I got in return (Yay!):
Thanks Margaret Simon for the beautiful zebras and good advice:
Thoughtful promise:
Savor every life moment
adventurously
Thanks to Joy Acey for this inspiring postcard and poem:
Our lawn is astonomical
with dandelion blooms.
A green sky filled
with a thousand suns
and then
and thousand moons
that with a puff
of wind become
a hundred thousand stars.
Written and Illustrated by Anna Grossnickle Hines
and for her watercolor and postcard poem:
Cock-a-doodle-do
the Kauai rooster crows
waking the world
to a precious day.
And thanks to Sylvia Vardell for these lunar New Year poems from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books):
New Year Cheer by Linda Sue Park
(celebrating a Korean tradition for the lunar New Year)
“I like your dress!”
“I like your vest!”
We look so fine,
we look the best!
Our grandma’s here
We’re going to bow
We’ve practiced lots
so we know how!
Who’s bowing first?
I will, I will!
A perfect bow —
a dollar bill!
100 Pieces by Kristy Dempsey
(celebrating January 29, National Puzzle Day)
Piece by piece,
bit by bit,
try them all
to find a fit.
First the edges,
then between,
filling in
a puzzling scene.
Thanks to Jone Rush MacCulloch for organizing the postcard exchange and for this beautiful postcard and poem:
first morning
all our resolutions
on a leaf
Thanks to Diane Mayr for this Year of the Rooster poem:
lighting the fire
under the rooster teapot
first dawn
Thanks to Carol Varsalona at Beyond LiteracyLink for hosting Poetry Friday this week! I’m posting twice this week ! This post was too late to be included on Friday because two of the postcards came Saturday. Happy Lunar New Year!! Have a magical weekend!
How lovely! I am working on sending out some thank you cards to the wonderful people who hosted me during my travel breaks last year, and your post is a great source of inspiration 🙂
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I’m so glad. I hope it works well for you.
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I love this idea!
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Isn’t it wonderful? I can’t claim the idea, only that I had fun participating. 🙂
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I think it is a wonderful idea…I might have to join in the fun 🙂
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There will probably be another postcard exchange this summer. 🙂
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
I LIKE THIS CHARMING POST! HER FRIENDS HAVE REAL CLASS. 🙂
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Thanks, Jonathan!
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See….I’m my normal self—interested in lots of things and ideas! Sounds like an idea I could use. But which poems?
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Send a love poem to your wife. 🙂
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WORKING ON IT—SHE EXPECTS ONE—CANNOT DISAPPOINT HER!
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Very sweet. Good for you and her.
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An entertaining and lovely post.
I sent some quotes to someone…who gave me a rather chilly reception because my handwriting wasn’t recognizable and I hadn’t ID’d myself.
I’ll be sending you an email…hope it doesn’t get caught by spam.
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Thanks, Jules. I’ll look for it. XOXO
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Brenda, how wonderful to read through the poetry postcards you received. Our poetry community is so inspiring and filled with joy. I am sorry that I saw your post and didn’t have a chance to respond until now. Best to you this week.
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I was horribly late, but I didn’t want to wait a week, once I realized I had them all. It was delightful to get poems during this tumultuous month. I was lucky to post so late in a way, because when I posted I realized that many others had come in late, too. I got to visit them all. It was sure a busy week!
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What a brilliant idea 🙂
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It was pure fun.
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Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!
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Aren’t they wonderful? I felt honored to receive them.
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It is definitely a positive in this negative collective of which there seems to be very little good change. A little smile or great -makes one day’s better also. (@–>–)
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Lots of smiles and magic for you! 😀
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Thank You. (@–>–)
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What FUN. I love this idea.
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Thanks, Gigi. It was fun and a great distraction from politics.
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i am absolutely in love with this idea
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Me, too. It was fabulous. I was too shy to participate the first couple of times, but I am not sorry I finally plunged in.
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How wonderful! I know I’d sure love to receive postcards like this. How uplifting it must be! I especially loved Anne Hines’.
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They were all wonderful. I was very happy to participate. I also got to share it with my daughter, because she made the art work I used when sending out my postcard. 🙂
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What a great idea Brenda, I hope you receive more, must be uplifting I would think…
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It is uplifting. Two came yesterday, and they were such a surprise. I thought I had gotten them all. Thanks for stopping by, Michael.
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Precious work changing hands. ❤ Lovely idea, Benda!
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Thanks, Dina.
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My post today celebrates this poetry postcard project. How fun to find poems in the midst of this new year! We hold each other up!
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This is a lovely post with a great idea
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