POetry POstcard (POPO) Festival 2025 was the best one yet, both on the creating and sending and the receiving. There were 31 people on my official list and 3 on my unofficial list. Each of these individuals received a collage postcard put together by me, with a poem that was spontaneously written in the mornings…
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POPO2024 Group 19 Photo and Cento
Group 19 Cento (with a few Group 1 stragglers)It’s all too easy staying turned in on oneself,An obligation and a test.Discern between inevitable and fixable.Trappings of terrestrial connection,They tasted like mountain muscle;I couldn’t fathom where they led.Some things take their time.Perhaps it is our cloud-constellation imaginations?Our souls bide, rooted in our mother earth signals.Heart is…
POPO2024 Group 1 photo and Cento
Cento POPO2024 Group 1Autumn slips in with cold nights;here we breathe the thin crisp air.Plumeria smell wafting in desert air,catapulted into different orbits.Small pieces sold, one by one;how many more autumns?Whomever seeks relief from the rigidity of polestime to save our freedom!Loons rise up, asserting their rights to the sky,a shiny new mailbox sending, receiving.Honor…
dVerse — Poetics — “Stepping Out of this World” cento from April 2 ekphrastic prompt poems (amended)
Photo by John McKaveney: Bright Moon The Moon is very important to us in many ways a lot of people don’t realize. Without the Moon and the delicate balance it creates, life on Earth may not have evolved. It also helps protect us from Solar System debris like asteroids (as is evident from all the…
POPO2023 Pic of All Postcards Received and Cento Poem from them
As of today, I have received a postcard from almost every one of the 30 people on my list. That’s the best return rate by far of the three years of participation. Add in some bonus cards from Kerfe and Jules, and look at these beauties! The variety and formats, as in other years, have…
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