photo: (c) 2015 Saradunn
photo: (c) 2015 Saradunn
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My response to the prompt:
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snow birds gone south
Tourney in the Big City
Locals head West
Sign reminds last one leaving
“Turn Out the LIGHTS”
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Seize the Poem prompt: Road signs
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Notes:
* the “Big City” is Bangor, ME, USA
* “tourney” is the High School Basketball
tournament held in 3 Maine cities.5
* the sign is just before the bridge to the
mainland on the way to Bangor
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photo (c) Saradunn NorEaster Iola..1/24/2015
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Prompt: Small stones:
a journey of mindfulness: sound
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My Response to the Prompt:
Sound of Snow Falling
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silence
birds in hiding
snow falling
crunch under foot ~ gather wood
fireplace ~ sizzle snap of flames
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Saradunn
photo: Straight Line Quilting
“vanity” .. homedesign9.co
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Seize the Poem prompt: straight line
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My response to the prompt:
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Straight Line Quilting
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oodles of colors
straight line quilting
puckering not wanted
slow & steady wins the race
grandma always knew best
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note
I would have loved to have the time
to quilt. At one time, there was a trend
for the straight line quilting and classes
but was unable to take them and then
time moved on. I am amazed at the leaps
and bounds the straight line quilting has taken.
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As a child, my paternal Grandmother Gerstner
would put her quilts together on my bed when
she stayed with us… I was the only grand-child
with a double bed. I’d see patches of material
from clothes I recognized and presume the other
relatives would also.
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.photo: wikepedia
Seize the Poem prompt: straight line
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My response: Straight Line Geometry
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geometry
Euclid’s “breadthless length”
greek to me
straight line segments
dysfunction junction math
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Note:
the love of math gene missed me,
but thanks to genetics, my children and
grand-children love math and understand
what is truly a foreign language to me.
photo: Gerstner family archives. Year unknown
Anna and Herman Gerstner, my grandparents.
Saradunn 2015
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TPOS prompt: your heritage cultural,
history as a bridge to your future family,
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My Response to the Prompt
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engagement ring
dainty pearls set in rose gold
thoughts swirl
corseted grandma once petite
stern grandpa ~ not always
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( All the traditions like fireworks in a night sky.
Chinese New Year, Vietnamese New Year, Mardi Gras,
Diwali, celebration of Lights,
Nowrooz, the beautiful Persian New Year —
the world is smaller now and our hearts grow bigger…
we embrace not only our own past
but the joy of celebrations of all cultures.
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When we were in Shanghai at Winter Holiday season,
all the waiters in restaurants were wearing Santa hats.
I asked. They said “here we celebrate EVERYTHING”
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What are your roots,
how do the spread into your life,
make a bridge the future?
Your own family history,
immediate and deep rooted…
where does it lead?
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My mother (94) has beautiful handwriting,
wore ribbons in her hair from babyhood and on…
how does this become you?
How does the
beauty,
complexity,
pain,
of the past determine the landscape of now and tomorrow?)
Kathabela’s mother, Mary Abela (now 94) as a baby.
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Photo: pin bought for a donation to
Habitat for Humanity
(c) 2015 Saradunn
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TPOS prompt:
what is your home made of ?
My response to the prompt:
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building homes
a brush of kindness
love in action
transforming lives
building communities
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Mon Feb 16, 2015 tanka prompt: what is your home made of
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(I wore my home “on my sleeve” today, it was made of kimonos.
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My friendCindy Rinne
made this beautiful pin and gave it to me,
when she finished her solo art show
in our Living Room Gallery a few years ago.
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She especially loves kimono fabric,
and she is an experimental and unusual
artist and poet !
(She loved having some
of our brilliant friend Alexis Rotella’s
collage papers too.
I wore her house for her visit…
who else can say my house is made of kimonos?
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It is a small mystery
as if a garden has moved indoors.
What is your home built of?
Bricks?
Does it have a grass roof?
A sterling silver door?
A golden entryway.
Is it made of words?
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What is the signpost,
the marker, the numbers that signify?
Do you embed mirrors and stones in your hearth?
What is your home built of,
can you “wear it on your sleeve”?
Or put it in your tanka?)
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