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Small gratitudes found in the day to day living of daily life.
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i’ve selected this work for dVersePoets’ prompt : Meeting the Bar: The Best of…
in this particular prompt we are asked by Brian Miller & Claudia Schoenfeld, co-founders, to “pick one poem you wrote throughout the year… — an encore performance” in honor of the site’s one year anniversary
i don’t know if this is my best, or even my favorite, no one poem for either category immediately comes to mind, other this this one 😉
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The Prompt, “Sculpting a Poem” from dVersepoets
victoria c slotto, hosts dversepoets’ prompt, “sculpting a poem” and gives a brief overview of sculpture’s uses and forms, with many nice links to both 3D and 2D artists known for their work in sculpture
i also happened to pick up a new word, when victoria asked for an “ekphrastic poem” –
ie, a poem that comments upon another art form
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Tips
among the several tips victoria suggests, i centered on two :
• Create a poem that is multi-dimensional, that is, one that can be read on more than one level.
• Choose one of the above “tools” such as texture or shape and allow it to shine in your poem.
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dVersepoets
from a few months exposure and experience, i can say that as a group, and individually, the quality of interactions with other poets, both in the content of commentary and in the tone of those critiques, this is a supportive imaginative entertaining group with a lot of creative talent
if you’ve had a hankering to be involved with other writers, esp poetry, i feel i can say this has worked for me 😉
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The Shape of Gratitude
the form, the shape, is
inside the stone
i’ve heard, a famous sculptor
once said –
if gratitude is in
the stone of life
how is it found, discovered
in the mix of crumbly and diamond
hard
molecules packed like stone?
does gratitude find the fissure and
split what needs shedding revealing
the expectant-waiting, now
let loose to
breathe?
does
gratitude
softly cloth-scrub the knobby grains and
accept the wave and weave of daily
living
set in stone?
will gratitude
learn
it may be
the real mix is the mesh
of what’s desired and what’s available?
can even angels claim soul’s rights
into any birth?
or is sculpted stone
simply
fluid grace set to rest?
the shape of gratitude is
both
the question, and the answer…
© 2012 felipe adan lerma
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this poem, “the shape of gratitude,” is also featured in a new ebook, “Art Poems” –
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and on a new site, Imperfect Prose, recommended by brian miller, one of the founders of dVersepoets, and a part of a new team at imperfect prose
it will be interesting to see how this new site will develop 😉
g’nite everyone 😉
namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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