Poetry Friday: #10FoundWords
It's the last Poetry Friday of January. That means I am gearing up for the annual February daily poem project.This year, I'm encouraging participants to engage with current events, news articles, political speeches, and interviews. Each day, we'll be using 10 Found Words from a news-related source and building our poems around those words.The February poetry project grew so large last year that I can no longer host it here at my blog. Instead, we are writing together in a closed Facebook group.Interested? Read the full introductory post here. If you'd like to join the group, leave me a note in the comments. I will add you ASAP.We've been working on a few warm-up poems before the project officially starts on February 1. Here's my draft of the day. Do you think it's "Unfair!"?Under the RugBy Laura ShovanThe arc-shaped flowof his solar-blonde hairdefies gravity. Fluid,odd, its color scorchedas a drought-tossed fieldof wheat. When the windrattles its dried-out stalks,the whole plain shifts, liftsas if the hidden door of Hell,slammed shut for so long,has swung wide openin the middle of America.
10 Words -- found by Heather Meloche:scorchingodditiesarc-shapedwhippedshiftsolarfluidflowslammedgravity