✽elle écrit✽: Carry On Tuesday # 139

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Carry On Tuesday # 139

Carry On Tuesday # 139
Prompt: Come Fly With Me

Come Fly With Me
In the now
of new moons,
starry skies
and comets

your laughter
spangles
the heavens.

Memories
run rampant,
a portal opens
somewhere,

the past
and future
splinter and divide.

Come back,
come fly with me
again, beneath
diamond-studded ceilings.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: your laughter
spangles
the heavens

I like this line ... nice word imagery for us to fly with!!; January 10, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Andy Sewina said...: 'Your laughter spangles the heavens' is a brilliant line and the image of 'this diamond-studded ceiling' is wonderful!; January 10, 2012 at 5:49 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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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Carry On Tuesday # 139

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