sherku: after networking

Half moon in
A wispy shawl
Next to stacked
Clouds putting on
Quite a light show


This was composed after the New Prosperity Initiative's Social Changeup4, while driving home heading due west on the MA Turnpike into and then under this scene.

sherku: fetal position

Police found
The two bodies
In a fetal
Position facing
Each other


This is a 'found' poem. The text was contained in the news article picked up by the Boston Globe about an elderly couple who were found dead in their Florida home. The elevator had been stuck between floors.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/07/17/elderly_couple_doomed_when_elevator_stuck/

sherku: creativity

In the space
between
anxiety
and boredom
creativity
flourished

This is a 'found' poem. I found and slightly manipulated the text to fit the sherku format. The original text can be found in the Newsweek article here: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html

sherku: house rules

The fact that 
you do worry 
about being 
a good mom 
means that 
you are one 


A 'found' sherku. The text was found in Jodi Picoult's House Rules and modified to become a sherku.

sherku: driving

Cloud bridge - i84 in CT
Originally uploaded by shersteve

new growth trees
ribboned highway
under the bridge
of clouds into
the blue beyond

this was originally posted to twitter #140poets #twitpoem

midsummer heat

I was cool 
In the pool 
Now hot on the spot 
Will I cope 
On the heat tightrope

sherku: candle light

Candle light

Walking the track 

Under the lights 

Relay for life 

Mother’s birthday 

sherku: refreshing

Water is to 

The body 

As education 

Is to your life 

Refreshing

Monday Morning Memo

Rhinestone cowboy

Rhiannon

Rhombus Rhodes

Rhetorical

morning rhapsody

What is a sherku? 


This was inspired by the MondayMorningMemo by RH Williams on 2/22/10

Poem on the Range

An email from the Academy of American Poets reveals:

Take some poetic license and hit the road in 2010. During National Poetry Month, also known as April, the Academy of American Poets will launch a collaborative multimedia-mapping project—Poem on the Range.

The Academy is calling on bookworms, road-trippers, and literary wayfarers to help picture poetry in place by submitting footage of poetic landmarks, cities, dwellings, streets, roadside ephemera, and other places immortalized by iconic poems.

Share footage from a poetic pilgrimage, or go the extra mile by capturing the experience on video while you read the poem on location. Tag submissions with a short note on what the poem, place, or poet means to you, and upload geotagged content to the Academy's Poem on the Range group page on Flickr or the Academy's Facebook Page, add it to the "Poem on the Range" Google Map, or email your videos or photos to OntheRange@poets.org.

Entries received by April 21, 2010, will be considered for a special National Poetry Month feature on Poets.org, and top entries will be thanked with enough poetry goods to keep you well-versed for all those miles to go.

Need poems to roam by? Get started with a selection of poems about place by visiting www.poets.org/ontherange.

Rules of the Road (a.k.a. Guidelines):

1. Submit your videos or pictures (with a brief description) to Flickr, Facebook, Google Maps, or via email to OntheRange@poets.org by April 21, 2010.

2. Tag all content with the poet's name, poem title, and location (please do not submit content featuring your own poetry).

sherku: super bowl ads

super bowl ads

come from a real

teenage wasteland

as old guys sing

who are you

What is a sherku?



originally posted to Twitter and tagged with   #140poets #twitpoem

dirty secret

Dirty secret
Of social media
Is how laborious
It all is




What is a sherku? 


This is a "found poem" in that it came from a line that @julespieri spoke during a panel discussion during the LaunchCamp on Thursday 2/4/10. 

This was tweeted and tagged as #140poets #launchcamp #twitpoem

Andrea Gibson - "say yes"

From Patti Digh, I get introduced to Andrea Gibson:

Happy birthday, Galway

Galway Kinnell's birthday is today.

Click through to the Poetry Foundation to read and hear some of his works.

morning light

I give thanks
morning light
reveals
joy amongst friends
continuing to learn


What is a sherku? 


This was prompted by the news that the Joyful Jubilant Learning blog is ending