featured poet ~ "J"

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(inter)national poetry month
April 2012

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featured poets
at my heart’s love songs

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“J”

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to celebrate {inter}national poetry month, i am pleased to be featuring some of the most creative, talented, brilliant {really!} poets of our time. i have been fortunate over the past two and a half years to meet this amazing group of people through twitter and their blogs. not only are they writers who excite and enchant and entrance their readers, they are, one and all, nice people who are supportive of everyone in our online poetry community. the “age of technology” has, in fact, facilitated the spread of the ARTS! ~ poetry, photography, art, prose, music… i have friends i have yet to meet face-to-face from all around the world. day or night, you can visit their blogs and be transported to another time or place or frame of mind with just a few clicks of a mouse. i find it thrilling! and i believe you will find it equally thrilling to discover their words.

i will be putting up these posts throughout the month of April to reacquaint you with old friends and introduce you to new ones. in order to include as many poets as possible, most posts will contain the work of several poets, with a short introduction to each one and a small sampling of their poetry. i am participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge April 2012 by featuring the poets in alphabetical order by first name MOST of the time ~ there will be a few other groupings, as well.

just click on the “Read More” links on each poem to be taken to a new tab or window to read the rest of the poem on the author’s blog. if you enjoy what you read, please leave a comment on their blog to let them know. { you don’t have to say you saw them here. } i am truly honored that these wonderful people agreed to be featured on my blog ~ my gratitude to them all.

and thank you for coming to our celebration ~ enjoy!

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featured poet:

Joanne Marie Firth aka @JoanneMFirth

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Joanne Marie Firth { @JoanneMFirth } is my best friend. we met on twitter toward the end of 2010. she lives across the country, we’ve never been face-to-face {yet} but she is like a sister to me. i have the utmost respect for Joanne as a woman, mother, human being…. poet, writer, photographer, artist. she has been writing since she was young and her talent is at a level far beyond the reach of most. when you go to her blog, don’t miss her additional page of Haiku…a few less words than usual. enjoy her words and images ~

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“The Edge Of My Dreams” by Joanne Marie Firth

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Disjointed scenarios

Crashing waves

Falling asunder

Until wakefulness saves

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Eyes barely open…..Read More

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via Words just words

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“How Far Is It?” by Joanne Marie Firth

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How far is it?

from

Elation to exasperation

from

Hope to craving

from

Desire to disgust

How far is it?

from…..Read More

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via Words just words

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“Fruition” by Joanne Marie Firth

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Today is the day. Three months of waiting, watching…..Read More

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via Words just words

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“Renewal” by Joanne Marie Firth

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From the beginning

tangled and jarred

answers before questions

future plans scarred

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Reality captured

what I was on the run from…..Read More

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via Words just words

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“HAIKU ” by Joanne Marie Firth

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In my quiet heart

resides echos of laughter

…..Read More

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via HAIKU… A FEW LESS WORDS THAN USUAL

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featured poet:

June O’Reilly aka @LunaJune

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June O’Reilly { @LunaJune } is an amazing woman, poet and celestial force. her smile and her energy light the world and warm the hearts of all around her, whether in the same room, across the ocean or in the virtual world. i felt a strong connection with June from the first time i saw a tweet of hers. i am grateful that we have become friends ~ just thinking about her brings a smile to my face. she feels like a sister… sometimes she feels like another me. her life force adds more to the universe than any other woman i’ve ever met. her poetry is magical. even the comments she leaves on others’ sites are wonderful {often more powerful than the original post.} i adore Junie and i am in awe of her words and photographs. i know you will be touched by the love that is Luna ~

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“Love… a four letter word…” by Luna

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Love colourful like us

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Love only vibrates

Love only is

Love is a wave

just photons of light

love loves…..Read More

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via LUNAJUNE’S POSTEROUS

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“Be The …..” by Luna

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be the rain that flows upon me

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be the flower I stop to smell

be the wind that blows through me

be the wonder that stops my mind

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reach my soul…..Read More

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via Moon Wanderings

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“life reaches” by Luna

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Life

reaches up

seeking the wa…..Read More

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via ON MY WAY TO… YOU!

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“Happiness” by Luna

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I am Love
bask in my glow

I am Happiness
come play in my joy

I am…..Read More

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via Moon Wanderings

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“Accepting Love” by Luna

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Letting go of the complications

that I can not change.
Holding on to the love
that is changing me.
Remembering that love
has no watch.
Giving back,
all that I hav…..Read More

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via Connections

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June’s Blogs ~

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featured poet:

Joy Ann Jones aka @hedgewitch

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Joy Ann Jones {aka hedgewitch when she is roaming around the internet} { @hedgewitch } is an extraordinary poet whose words weave spells of enchantment and wonder on her blog Verse Escape. in her own words, she is a “Graduate of Satan’s Reform School for Wayward Girls. Doctorate in Verbosity from STFU.” don’t let that fool you though ~ Joy is a very kind and generous soul. granted, with a razor-sharp wit. {smile} oh, and she grows things… beautiful gardeny things. here is a sample of the poems she grows ~

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“Incubus II” by Joy Ann Jones/hedgewitch

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Tonight the incubus is in

a vile mood.

His pouts are puffs of sulphur

huffed on my walls,

leaving a yellow palled

skin of ill will;

his tail jerks and…..Read More

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via Verse Escape (c) Joy Ann Jones. Joy blogs as hedgewitch at Verse Escape

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“Vessel” by Joy Ann Jones/hedgewitch

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When the moon

is winking

like the Grey Sisters’ eye

passed from housetop

to housetop, glassy bright

and wide as a fawn’s

I feel your touch

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the wind in the night

cool on fever’s summer,

you who can kiss with…..Read More

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via Verse Escape (c) Joy Ann Jones. Joy blogs as hedgewitch at Verse Escape

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“Ritual” by Joy Ann Jones/hedgewitch

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The drum is beating low

but constant like Leviathon’s heart

far up in the moonless basin

filled with the ocean of night.

The flame flares with the ghosts of grasses

born on the banshee’s wind.

The bent man circles in his animal mask

rustling soft the rattle of bone.

In this black of smoke and flicker

his chant is a shine, his words…..Read More

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via Verse Escape (c) Joy Ann Jones. Joy blogs as hedgewitch at Verse Escape

artwork ~ Figure de pleureuse. Musée du Louvre
Pourrait être Isis pleurant Osiris {in the public domain}
18th Dynasty Terracotta sculpture; thought to be Isis mourning Osiris

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“Faerie Tales” by Joy Ann Jones/hedgewitch

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Once upon a time
a nightingale

pressed her breast upon a thorn

trilled her last liquid song

to stain for a fool

one perfect rose red.

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Once upon a time
a mermaid renounced her tail…..Read More

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via Verse Escape (c) Joy Ann Jones. Joy blogs as hedgewitch at Verse Escape

artwork ~ Clonfert mermaid from Clonfert Cathedral, Clonfert, County Galway, Ireland
Trounce under the Creative Commons License

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“Raven and Stone” by Joy Ann Jones/hedgewitch

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Artists: J. Gould and E. Gould; Lithographer: E. Gould

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The raven holds

a found brightness in his claw

that his sharp beak

will never crack

yet he eyes it with

the very speaking soul

of possession,

one hunger set aside

while another feeds…..Read More

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via Verse Escape (c) Joy Ann Jones. Joy blogs as hedgewitch at Verse Escape

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2012 featured poet at
my heart’s love songs

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i would have loved to have included more poets, but it just wasn’t possible in the amount of time which i can devote to my blog right now. there are many, many more poets who are far better writers than i, and i sincerely hope no one is offended that i did not ask them to participate. these are the poets i “know” and felt comfortable approaching. maybe you and i can get better acquainted before next year? {smile} thank you for your visit! ♥ dani

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4 Responses to featured poet ~ “J”

coalblack

16 April 2012 at 9:20 am

To paraphrase the Waylon Jennings song, “If we all wrote like we wanted to, we’d all sound like Joy Jones”! What a pleasure to see my BFF featured here at my Sista Poet’s place, and the choice of poems is stellar.

- dani
  
  17 April 2012 at 2:40 am
  
  i don’t think we could find a poem of Joy’s that isn’t stellar, do you? {smile} ♥
  
hedgewitch

16 April 2012 at 9:38 am

Thanks, dani, for this kind feature of some of my work . I very much enjoyed reading your other ‘J’ poets as well. Truly, without the community we build here online, we’re like flowers that bloom in some far alpine meadow that no one sees–thanks for taking everyone on a hike through those blooming fields.

- dani
  
  17 April 2012 at 2:41 am
  
  it is my pleasure, Joy! ♥ thank you for allowing me to feature your poetry.