Tea and Breath
Thinking about the human condition -- writing, tea, big sky mind and all things poetic
Why white people don’t want to live among racists, either ~ (part 1)
As we continue to settle in to our home in Virginia, people will sometimes ask ~ Wasn't it hard to leave your home of 20+ years in Oklahoma? Don't you miss it? I don't really know how to respond, truthfully. Of course I miss people I love, who remain in that proudly...
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the dance upon our toes ~
I watched the most amazing half-hour series yesterday -- Poetry in America's 1st episode in this spring's offerings. Centred on the iconic Emily Dickinson, and her poem "I cannot dance upon my toes," it's one of the few poetry specials I remember to make manifest the...
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NaPoWriMo/ National Poetry Month/ & just a poem ~
Today's the 6th day of one of my favorite months -- National Poetry Month. Which is also National Poetry WRITING Month, NaPoWriMo. AND...my birthday month! How filled w/ great stuff can a month get? The NaPoWriMo prompt for today is about the line -- about changing it...
read moreepeolatry revisited ~ the poem
Here's today's NaPoWriMo post (still playing catch-up!): Epeolatry[1] ~ I can taste it: the airy mouthfeel of eh the whisper plosive of pē how the round liquidity of ol fills the back of my throat like thick honey and then the crisp wafer of trēē breaks between the...
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Epeolatry, or the love of words that begets (begat?) poetry ~
I see the word epeolatry and I feel obliged to confess: I’m a total word nerd. I was that kid you hated in 4th grade, who begged for spelling words, and won the spelling bee, and had her nose in a book so often that even my grandmother – an old teacher – yelled at me:...
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and so it begins (National Poetry Month, that is) ~
So much poetry! So little time! I have a couple of links for you to start off National Poetry Month, and an assignment (😏). First, here's a short post I did recently for the wonderful literary journal Nimrod. It looks at the differences between poets & prose...
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