Today’s challenge? To write our own poem that describes a detail in a painting, and that begins, like Auden’s poem, with a grand, declarative statement. I chose to look at Picasso’s Guernica, to reflect on current issues and paint it with appropriate colours. Art only works if you invert its meaning.See the sacred cow’s head,Continue reading “What is it good for?”
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Lisa’s song
Today’s optional prompt is to craft a poem that recounts an experience of driving/riding and singing, incorporating a song lyric. Today’s resource took us on a virtual visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where I found out about a still unsolved robbery in 1990, when a dozen invaluable works of art were stolen. IContinue reading “Lisa’s song”
What do you see?
Our prompt for today is to use Donald Justice’s poem, “There is a gold light in certain old paintings,” which plays with both art and music, and uses an interesting and possibly self-invented form. His six-line stanzas use lines of twelve syllables, and while they don’t use rhyme, they repeat end words. Specifically, the secondContinue reading “What do you see?”
Missives & Musings 