Stone stories
We're looking at the meaning of things in this issue #153 of your weekly poetry shot
Stack of stones.
Just a playful way to
spend a few happy moments outside,
or a lovely way to
remember.
Stacking stones. Admittedly, I’m not super good at it. But somehow, I always like to make a little tower. It’s a fun thing to do. But stones also can have meaning. Of course there is the geological significance of them: they can tell the history of our planet. But stones also are sometimes used to remember those who are no longer with us. You can see that, for example, with breath-taking, powerful silence, in Auschwitz. But also in many other places.
When I stack a few rocks, it’s a bit of everything. Playing, remembering, but also celebrating life and the ones who are still here. Never forget to do that.
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Poetics in life
This week only an image. A reminder of how beautiful our world can be. Enjoy.
Poetry elsewhere
Have you ever seen word-unit palindrome poems? It’s a type of poem that needs a lot of crafting to create. The poet known as OddWritings is a master at it. In this case, he has written the poem Murdery by (Loco)motive with “111 words followed by 1 pivot word followed by the original 111 words in backwards order”. Go see what it looks like and how impressive this is.
I fell in love with Marta Gazzola’s work initially for her use of multiple languages in one beautiful cocktail. The meaning I took from her works made me grow fonder of it. Her latest poem, Surface Tense, included in The VERSE Verse’s Community Anthology Issue #1, is only in one language, but I read a lovely diverse world in it.
The summers are getting hotter in many places around the globe. You can read the news reports about it happening, but my poet-friends are capturing it with so much more beauty. Like
has with these two poems in Creeping Through Summer:
Beautiful Arijan.