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Everyday Miracles #2sDayPoems

17 Tuesday Oct 2017

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And Other Poems, Bloodaxe Books, Elizabeth Bishop, everyday miracles, Stephanie Norgate, women poets

 

I was introduced to the work of British poet Stephanie Norgate last October when one of her poems came across the fantastic And Other Poems blog. You’ll want to subscribe to their posts if you aren’t already. Go ahead, I’ll wait a minute while you sign up. Anyway, I remember being so surprised by its ending and very moved by these very “everyday” miracles. It stuck with me for a long time and I revisited it this morning while preparing this post. I’m pairing it here with Elizabeth Bishop’s A Miracle for Breakfast for your #2sDayPoems enjoyment.

 

MIRACLE

by Stephanie Norgate

In supermarkets, strapped
in a trolley,

on the motorway,
belted in the back of a car,

under the foundered houses,
open mouthed and fed by drips,

in a box drilled with holes,
in the hold of a boat,

in fish crates and on cardboard,
on pallets and straw,

on a bed of needles
on the forest…

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A MIRACLE FOR BREAKFAST

by Elizabeth Bishop

At six o’clock we were waiting for coffee,
waiting for coffee and the charitable crumb
that was going to be served from a certain balcony
–like kings of old, or like a miracle.
It was still dark. One foot of the sun
steadied itself on a long ripple in the river.

The first ferry of the day had just crossed the river.
It was so cold we hoped that the coffee
would be very hot, seeing that the sun
was not going to warm us; and that the crumb
would be a loaf each, buttered, by a miracle.
At seven a man stepped out on the balcony.

He stood for a minute alone on the balcony
looking over our heads toward the river.
A servant handed him the makings of…

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 22)

22 Friday Apr 2016

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Alice Ostriker, Apparatus Magazine, Barrelhouse, Eavan Boland, Elizabeth Bishop, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jeffrey McDaniel, Jenna Le, Jo Bell, Kathryn Simmonds, Langston Hughes, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, R.A. Villanueva, women poets

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DAY TWENTY-TWO of the best prompts, poems and news from your  #NaPoWriMo/#NPM16/#NaPoMo /#NationalPoetryMonth/#poemaday hashtags.

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Earth Day prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Favorite Recipe prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Star__ prompt”
Poetry School’s “Writing People prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “(Dead) Famous Person prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Mirror, Mirror prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Computational Poetry prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Element of Nature prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “So I Can Dance prompt”
Christian Gerhard Buehler’s “Princely prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Life Ambitions List prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Work Activities prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Importance of Music prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Alice Ostriker “Utopian”
Kathryn Simmonds “April”
R.A. Villanueva “When Doves”
Elizabeth Bishop “A Cold Spring”
Langston Hughes “The Weary Blues”
Jeffrey McDaniel “The First Straw”

Miscellaneous

Poet Spotlight: Jenna Le on Whales, Womanhood, and the Writing Life
Call for Prince tribute poems& essays at Barrelhouse

**Poets, if you would like to be featured in 2sDay Poems, have your collection reviewed, guest post in the Poetry Lab or blog on any of the Thoughts on Poetry topics, including Foremother Friday or Small Press Interviews, drop me a line at  bonesparkblog@yahoo.com.

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 10)

10 Sunday Apr 2016

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Black Lawrence Press, Brigit Peegen Kelly, Carol Berg, Cynthia Manick, Elizabeth Bishop, Emma Bolden, Found Poetry Review, Gwendolyn Brooks, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indian Humanities, Irish Times, Ithaca Lit, Jane Draycott, Jo Shapcott, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Philip Levine, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rebecca Goss, Redheaded Stepchild, women poets

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DAY TEN of the best prompts, poems and news from your  #NaPoWriMo/#NPM16/#NaPoMo /#NationalPoetryMonth/#poemaday hashtags.

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Book Spine poems challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Favorite Color prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Weaving in a Trio of Titles prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Emotions as Title prompt”
Poetry School’s “Bathroom Setting prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Slam Poems challenge”
QuillsEdge Press’ “I’m Starving For ___ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Unearthing What’s Buried prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “What Work Is prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Inanimate Objects to Life prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Seeking Inklings in an Old Video prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Past Lives prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Darkest Fears, Things that Haunt prompt”
Elizabeth Koch’s “Love/Hate prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Gwendolyn Brooks “The Lovers of the Poor”
Cynthia Manick “What I Know About Blues”
Elizabeth Bishop “The Art of Losing”
Brigit Peegen Kelly “The Leaving”
Carol Berg “The Temptress Writes Once More About the Dream of Him..”
Kerrie O’Brien “Notre Dame”
Emma Bolden “I Was Told Not to Write About the Body/The Daughter I Will Never Have”

Miscellaneous

Poet Philip Levine on America’s Workers (Bill Moyers)
Medicine Unboxed (video) MORTALITY – ELEGY – Draycott, Goss and Shapcott

**Poets, if you would like to be featured in 2sDay Poems, have your collection reviewed, guest post in the Poetry Lab or blog on any of the Thoughts on Poetry topics, including Foremother Friday or Small Press Interviews, drop me a line at  bonesparkblog@yahoo.com.

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