the little poems on my pendants
In the midst of all the bunny poop and making stuff, I also write poetry. But lately it’s been more a matter of “extracting” poetry than writing it. I can’t look at words anymore without seeing little poems. They’re everywhere I look, books, signs, cereal boxes, and they just jump out at me off the page. With all the words already written, it almost seems wasteful or frivolous to write more, and this has kept me in a sort of block for a while now. But I’m obsessed with finding the poems in existing texts. Sometimes it’s a seemingly random block of text which evokes strong images not present in the actual words. In this way they remind me of language poems. Sometimes it’s a single line which captures a thought I’ve had that I never would have framed in exactly those words, often brilliant in their cropped and unconventional wording. My “a quarter in little leeway not late, but” pendant is an example of this type of found poem (that one pretty well describes how I do most things. Except when I’m actually late :)). And sometimes it’s just a word or a snippet of a word, unspectacular in itself, but which compliments exactly the feeling I was trying to evoke in a particular pendant. As the tag line in an old abandoned blog of mine read, “Every word is a poem. Speak carefully.”
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Hello, there. I love your pendants, and the ideas behind them, and that they introduce people to the idea of words being important, without pushing poetry on them…
Would you like to be included in a future issue of THE OTHER HERALD? I edit/publish this little literary publication on a monthly basis, and the above blog about your pendants really caught me eye. I’d love to reprint that in a future issue, if you would allow, with any modification needed, and a little bio about yourself. Interested? Check out TOH’s web site and my etsy site (because i have some back issues for you to look at, there), and then let me know.
Smiles,
Tanya
T F Rice, Editor
theotherherald@yahoo.com
P.S. Feel free to submit poetry or prose any time. I am always looking for insights and in general words that compiled in an arty way … make people fill in their own blanks.
Also I appreciate your comments on your move from the corporate world. I left a public accounting firm and went to a not for profit, almost two months ago… what a change, in every part of my life. :-) Your comments are so true; we dont realize how great we have it, unless we were neck deep in the working world to start with. I am not as lucky as you; I work full time but I try to do the arty stuff in my off time.
That would be great…thanks Tanya! I’ll shoot you an email to discuss :)