Multi-blog Poetry Wednesday

I had written poetry in my 20's and 30's and then got too busy to be reflective, changed over to prose and free lance writing. Even wrote technical manuals. Then I got involved with blogging on Y!360 and there was a Poetry Wednesday tour.

I joined in at first sharing the poems the poets had written and I had merely loved and cherished. Then one day I decided to put pen to paper (poetry is always written thus for me) and came up with the following poem. Not a great effort or earth shattering but it opened the door for me to again write the poetry of my heart.

Passing the Ball

Balls of knitting wool
Needles, hooks
Twined into textures
Intricate
Mysterious
Warm

Mother taught me to knit
Crochet, sew, embroider
Sat beside me
Upon the couch
Retrieved my dropped stitches
Corrected
My patterns
With Warmth

Arts shared
Skills taught
Treasures created
Handed down
From Mother to daughter
Intricate patterns
Of Life

I sit now
On the couch
Alone
Knitting memories
To keep me warm
A sweater
To show
I learned

See what
My mother taught me
To do
I knit, Crochet
Cross stitch, crewel
And Sew

Intricate
Patterns
Of lives
Entwined
Knitted together
keeping me warm

J. Binford-Bell October 2007

It is another multi-blog poetry Wednesday and you can play with us with a poem of your own or one that you cherish written by another. You can post your poem on any blog platform and just provide me with your url in a comment here or on Profiles so I can link you in.

My So-Called Life is first again this week

Dangerous Meredith

Bee's Blog

Nicholas V

The Orchid Cactus Bloom

The Orchid Cactus bud began to open last night and completed the process this morning. The blossom is 11 inches across. No it does not smell but it is definitely too beautiful for just one photo. I took over 50 from when it was a bud and I have culled them and put the remaining into a slide show.

Back to Painting

I have not painted much in the last month because I just have not felt like it. Shortly after getting over the flu it hit me that I had two shows in the next five weeks and one is less than two weeks away.

I have ample inventory of paintings but I had run out of my mission series. They are very popular and this is not a year to pass up any opportunity for a sale. So in the last week I have been working on five small mission paintings. The two below are 11 x 14.

The Abiquiu church is one of my favorites. I think this is my third version of it. They all sell.

ABIQUIU DAWN

But my newest find in churches is the one at Manzano. From the front it could be just anyone of the many adobe churches found in small towns around New Mexico. But I love the rear view. I did the first one at night, but I have another I am doing of this same view on a 12 x12 diagonal canvas but in the daytime.

MOON OVER MANZANO


I will be posting the other paintings I have completed another day. Started sketching out three possible more paintings. But I need to frame these first. The next ten days will go fast. The first fair of the season always hits me unawares.

Slide show?

I have been playing with slide shows on FlickR and trying to post. Given the great instruction I have gotten from blogging friends with more smarts I thought I had it right. But I was getting nowhere until I decided that maybe my "privacy" settings on FlickR was my issue. So today I picked a folder there marked public - my zoo pictures. And below are the results.

Foto Friday

We have been having rain here almost every afternoon or evening. The weatherman says it is a monsoonal pattern. But we don't usually get monsoons until July and August. Monsoonal weather is when there is a shift in prevailing upper level winds bringing moist ocean air over otherwise dry areas. Here that moist air reaches the mountains and rises to condense as clouds and form huge cumulus thunderheads. They are beautiful to behold. And I spend hours in the studio trying to capture on canvas just the feeling of these clouds.


I very much enjoy sitting on my studio stoop at afternoon break time and watching them grow up and up and up. On the dark underside you will see lightning flashes. The fur kids head in first at the sound of distant thunder. It is the static electricity in the air that usually gets me at last inside before the drenching rains hit.

See Frani on her new profile page for more fabulous fotos today.

Multi-blog Poetry Wednesday for June 3, 2009

Grace

What manner is this spark
We at turns call energy
Or well being or drive
Or grace?

We take it for granted
Each day it is with us
And only note it
When lost.

Missing its illumination upon waking
We are inclined
to wallow in bed
or pity.

Finding it again after a period of absence
We are want to define it
As a brighter light
A clearer sky.

And why does this spirit
Bring us calm
As well as energy
And Inspiration.

I cannot say when grace went away
Or what miasmas of body or soul caused it to go
But I noted the moment of its return
With a smile.

Oh, how very blue the sky
How fresh the breeze
And sweet the song of birds
I am sated.

Full after days of parched soul
Warmed by the spring sun
That only yesterday brought
A chill.

Today I had an abundance of well being
I sat and basked in the glory
Of feeling energy again
Dreaming.

Today my spirit awoke
And I became aware
Of just how long it has been
Gone.

(c) Jacqui Binford-Bell

Another Multi-blog Poetry Wednesday tour is open. This week we have Profiles joining us. As Y360 is closing down I will be posting the tour on both Profiles and Y360 as well as Creative Journey.

If you have a poem you can give me a message on 360 or write in my guestbook on Profiles or post a comment on the Multi-blog Poetry Wednesday post here or there or there. Need your url.

And away we go.

My So-Called Life

Dangerous Meredith

Nicholas V

Bee

Shouting at Street Lights

My Granny Square Afghans

This site is suppose to be my creative ventures and tomorrow (later today) it will be the base for another Multi-blog Poetry Wednesday so please check back. But today I wanted to feature my "while ill" crafts - my afghans. The above one is my first and is smaller, sort of lap robe size.

And this one is full size and I got more creative on my color uses and number of square motifs to arrange. Sitting in my easy chair crocheting squares is very relaxing when I am watching a DVD. And until you link them all together you don't have to be under a blanket of yarn. So I am starting another lap sized one.