Written for our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s
Kaddish. This week’s PoW, Robbie Cheadle. 👏🏽
Submissions are open for 5 days, until Monday, June 17, 10:00 AM (GMT+2)
I. The prompt poem:
‘Downward Spiral’, a poem by Roberta Cheadle
II. Robbie’s prompt guidelines
A “golden shovel” poem is a poetic form wherein each word of one line from another
poem serves as the end word of each line for a newly constructed poem.
You can read more about golden shovel poems and find some examples here:
- For this week’s W3 prompt, choose a quote by any famous or well-known
politician, artist, writer, or poet and write a golden shovel poem.- Identify your famous person in the post.
III. Submit: Click on ‘Mister Linky’
Your place in the family of things
depends on the value you place on your essence. First,
place your hand on your chest and feel your aliveness for a moment
in the quiet of the silence, take stock of your breathing;
the force that is your being flutters like the pulse in butterfly wings or
family roots that wind around and expand to propel you further.
of all the wonderments of this world, you are the fairest--even when
things refuse to mend, or sorrow seems to linger, you’ll find the signs
over and over, announcing your place in the family of things*
© selma
*Mary Oliver
(1935-2019)
*
forever in your
reverence, a place
where you can live in
proper within the
banks of family
and the windmills of
my mind, mud, and things
© selma
*Mary Oliver
(1935-2019)
Thank you for reading
I’m a simple woman who dares to see the beauty in ordinary. I’d love to connect with you and like pen pals, I want something beautiful to blossom between us. Will you join me? Selma is my middle name. Its meaning—peaceful, complete, are euphoric affirmations I like to think of myself as having. They compliment the joy I feel when I write. I sincerely hope you decide to join me on my writing journey. I Wish You Miracles.
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Nice job. Nice choice of inspiration, too. I love Mary Oliver.
Thanks, so much, Sally. Glad to share this love of Mary with you. Happy Friday to you.
so well done!
I appreciate you saying, Beth. 🤗
Nice your choice! Your place in the family of things
depends on the value you place on your essence. First,
place your hand on your chest and feel your aliveness for a moment. Interesting & kind words use in poem.
Happy you liked the words, Raj. Thanks for the encouraging response. Xo
Iam too happy!
Gorgeous, the inspiration and the inspired.
🙇🏽♀️ thanks so much Dora
Wonderful poems, Selma. You did a great job with this prompt.
I’ve written one or three in my day 😜 happy for this prompt. Thanks Robbie 🤗
Terrific, Selma 🌈
Great poems as always Selma!
As always thanks dear friend.
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I felt it in my heart. Thank you for such powerful poems. And for enticing me to write my own 😉
Dawn. Hi. The pleasure is mine. And how rewardful that you wrote your own. This I love. Amazing. Keep going. You wrote a beautiful poem. And video 👏🏽
You’ve really entered the spirit of Mary Oliver’s words. (K)
😃 thanks, K
beautifully done, Selma…and a lovely choice of inspiration 🤍
I’m pleased you liked it, Destiny. Thanks.
Beautifully said!
Thank you so much. Xoxo
A beautiful combination of poems👌🏾✍🏾
🩵. Loads of depth in the first one especially
Selma, this may sound crazy, but that first poem especially SOUNDS so MUCH like you – I can practically hear you speaking these words in my ear! It’s uncanny!
~David
Sweet of you. 🤗
🤗
Bravo!! This is a wonderful use of the prompt!!
Thanks dearly 🤗
Hi Selma,
Just wanna let you know that this week’s W3 prompt, hosted for the first time by the amazing Jude Italki, is now live!
https://skepticskaddish.com/2024/06/19/w3-prompt-112-weave-written-weekly/
Enjoy❣️
Much love,
David
🎩 top of the hour…
🙇🏽♀️ much obliged, my friend 🤗
*HUG*