✽elle écrit✽: Poetic Form: Septolet

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Poetic Form: Septolet

Summer Night Under The Streetlights
Fickle
as leftover
shadows,

hovering moths
swarm under
the amber glow
of the streetlights.

3 comments:

Laurie Kolp said...: I love this image... well done!; July 17, 2011 at 9:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Beautiful poem! The first stanza is brilliant phrasing.; July 19, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Mary said...: I will second what Laurie has said. The imagery is beautiful!; July 24, 2011 at 5:25 PM

sidewalk poetry

Marcus Young, Saint Paul’s artist in residence, started an annual sidewalk poetry contest in 2008. St. Paul residents were invited to enter the contest to have their poems permanently installed in city sidewalks. Young conceived the idea after learning about the public works department’s annual sidewalk replacement program. Because of age and deterioration, the city replaces about 10 miles of sidewalk each year. “I like the unlikely pairing of poetry and sidewalk replacement,” Young said. “Sidewalks are clearly a necessity, yet creating beauty and mystery with public art is equally important. We must build well both the hard durable structures of our city and the soft spaces for our collective imagination." My poem, November, was one of the five poems chosen to be installed in 2009.

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Poetic Form: Septolet

3 comments: