Today I’m reciting the third stanza of “The Stolen Child” by W.B. Yeats in response to Tweetspeak Poetry’s dare for National Poetry Month. Are you memorizing along with us? Leave a comment below and a link if you are reciting it in some form. Where the wandering water gushes From the hills above Glen-Car, In […]
Commit Poetry: The Stolen Child – Second Stanza
Today I recite the second stanza of W.B. Yeats’ “The Stolen Child,” that many of us are memorizing for National Poetry Month. Here’s the first. And yes, I’m still working on “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” I’m almost there. Oh, and about those Surinam cherries. You can read about them here. The writer tells […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 30 (Plus An Invitation and a Giveaway!)
“We need solitude in a world that wants to visit, quiet from a world that wants idle chit-chat, and steadfastness in a world where everything’s changing and transient. We need time to gather the little pieces of ourselves that scatter.” Word Count: 40 ~Dave Harrity in Making Manifest: On Faith, Creativity, and the Kingdom at […]
a 10th day poem
Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? So I took a little break and drew ten little words (technically eleven for the third line) from my word magnet box. I played with them until I came up with this to celebrate the tenth day of the month. And that’s all I’ve got. Stilled […]
