My Dilemma Over a Poem about Religion

Today I did a poem news print poem based on the show "bare". It is playing at the Breakthrogh Theater in Winter Park. It is a play about teenaged angst made all the angst-ier
by the fact that the teens go to a religious school and have to factor religon into their hormonal soup. I striped away all the review parts and left the teenaged angst parts.

My dilemma concerned what picture to use. I wanted to use the photo of Richard Dawkins' Book, "The God Delusion, but that would eliminate all ambiguity from the poem.  And one mark of a good poem is ambiguity. So I went with a different picture.  A young woman staring up at the sky as if looking for answers. 

See the picture  and read the poem at http://newsprintpoetry2012.blogspot.com/2012/08/teens-looking-for-god.html

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/The_God_Delusion_UK.jpg

Decisions, Decisions, Poetry Decisions

Some days it is a difficult choice when I am deciding what story to write about.  I like to choose the most important story of the day, if I can.  But whatd I do when there are two or more important stories?

For instance yesterday, the rover, Curiosity, landing on Mars was a major story, one people will want to remember.  But there was also a story about the Sikh killings in Wisonsin and I wanted to write about that also.

I decided to go with the mars story and hope there would be something abot the Sikh killings in the paper today.  I lucked out.  There was a column about these killings.  Even better luck--today's story made for a better poem.

Be sure to read it at http://newsprintpoetry2012.blogspot.com/2012/08/sikh-killings.html

August Poetry Project--New Thoughts

Everyday I send out the news print poem of the day.  I make my own postcards so I can include the picture.

I've been getting a picture postcard each day.  Some days, the picture and the poem match up,  Today I got a postcard from Seattle Washinton.  It was a picture of the city with Mount Rainier in the backgroud.  The poem was about Mt. Rainer.

Yesterday, I got a postcard with a Texas license plate on it.  There was a clever poem about the trials of moving from one city to another city, both in Texas.

It's fun sending the poems and fun getting the poems.  And maybe the recipients of my poems will want to read more and they will go to http://newsprintpoetry2012.blogspot.com

I'm always excited to get new readers and followers.

August Poetry Project (Con't)

I received two more postcards with poems on Saturday. 

One of the post cards was very cleverly done.  It was cut from a cereal box, and it had been carefully postioned to show a delicious looking spoonful of cereal.  What a good idea--Using the cardboard packaging from a pantryitem to create a picture postcard.

Suggestion:  If you do this, up the cleverness factor a notch or two by writing a poem to match the picture. There's a lot to work with in this picture--the silver sppon, the flakes and oats, the raisens, the mikly white milk and the words "Great Tasting & Heart Healthy."

On of the suggestions for the poetry project is have your poem answer one of the poems you have received. Since the person who sent this card is towards the end of my list, I'll have plenty of time to come up with a poem that matches the picture.

Wikipedia Makes Me Sad

I was on Wikipedia in the found poetry catefory for about two minutes.  I did an "edit" to put myself on the page.  It was short and followed the wikipedia style.  I saw it there. 

Five minutes later, I went to admire my name in the wikipedia, and it was gone.  I felt proud that I had figured out how to do an edit and also proud that I was on Wikipedia.  I've been erased.  Now I feel sad.

Does anyone know why that happens?  Aand , more importantly, how I can get the post to stay put.

Oh well, al least my blogs still exist.  You can still read my poems at http://newsprintpoetry2012.blogspot.com

Postcards, Pictures, and Poems.

Postcards from the August Poetry Project

I signed up for the August Poetry project. (See the 7/25/12/ post.) I got a head start and began mailing
out a poem a day to the people on my list at the end of July. Yesterday, I mailed my seventh card, but I still hadn't received any. I started to think that maybe people weren't keeping their commitment. Today I got three postcards, each with a nice poem on it. Not just plain postcards, but each with a great picture on the front.

I looked at the pictures and the poems, and it was like two of the poems had switched cards. One was light verse about how the internet dominates our lives and it had a picture  of a 1941 movie poster for the film "The Monster and the Girl." 

The other card had a touching poem with a wry twist at the end about a friend who died from Lou Gehrig's disease. This one had a picture of the famous New Yorker cartoon, depicting two dogs at a computer and captioned "On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog."

Now clearly, the dog cartoon belonged with the internet poem and the dying-of-a-terrible-disease poem belonged on the Monster card. (The analogy is that the disease is the monster and the girl is the writer of the poem.)

Weird coincidence, don't you think?

I liked all three of my cards and all three poems.  I'll be rushing to the mailbox tomorrow morning.

Read the poems at http://newsprintpoetry2012.blogspot.com

A Whole Lot of Clicking Going On

My arm hurts. My right arm.  The arm that has the hand that has the finger that I use for clicking.

It takes a lot of clicks to put new content on three blogs, especially when I post daily on one and about three to five times a week on the others.

It’s not just putting the content up. I post pictures on two of the blogs to add interest to the site. I have to click on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus to get the word out. Finally, I pin the pictures on Pinterest as another way of getting the word out.

 

So now I need you to click. You already clicked to get to this page.  Check out my other blogs. Check out the sidebars and the items at the bottom of the page. You might find something worthy of a click (maybe my book covers.)

Plus I have added a little poll as a sidebar on each of my other sites.  Vote for your favorite poem on http://newsprintpoetry2012.blogspot.com and for your favorite show on http://premiumcablereviews.blogspot.com . 

Like me on Facebook, retweet me on Twitter, plus one me Google Plus.  Please help me get more popular. Thanks for whatever help you can give me and thanks for reading.