Christine invites us to her 25th Poetry Party and over a year of poetic inspiration! She writes
I had no idea when I began these how meaningful they would become to me and to those of you who participate by writing or reading. Thank you for the wonderful creative community that forms around each of these.
I select an image and suggest a title and invite you to respond with your poems, words, reflections, quotes, song lyrics, etc. Leave them in the comments or email me and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a link back to your blog if you have one (not required to participate!) I’ll add your contributions all week and then I will draw a name at random on Friday morning from everyone who participates and will send the winner a special prize in honor of my 25th Poetry Party — a signed copy of my new book Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening and Awareness . Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the image and invitation on your blog and encourage others to come join the party!
This week’s theme is simple, I invite you to write a poem celebrating the gift of the written word in your life.
The photos below were taken this past summer in the library at Melk Benedictine Abbey in Austria (to see the library, click on the link in the righthand sidebar that says “The Abbey museum, marble hall, library, church” and then click “Library.”)
From their website: “In the order of importance of the rooms in a Benedictine monastery, the library comes second only to the church” –another reason I love the monastic tradition!
Developmental snapshots
Books from long ago
Grandparents' bay window seat
Christmas afternoon
Aunty Ruth's Bible
Write and draw in my notebook
as I daily read
Box came from city
while I was at school today
Read until dinnertime
D H Lawrence is
required reading for English
Hide it under bed
(what would Mother say?)
Behavioural Science
Grown up now share books with Dad
Discuss not agree
(and that is fine)
Long distance plane trip
Wonder at power of fiction
almost forgotten
Emptying parental home
cherish memories
Grandmother's Bible
gift to highland teenage lass
3 comments:
wonederful- a literary journey in poetry!
This really is a wonderful journey Mavis, it helped me to connect with my own literary markers. Thank you for this gift to the party!
It was a joy to take part in the party - I realise how much the written word has been a part of my life. Thank you both for your omments
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