Dragonfly's Poetry & Prolixity


Dragonfly: Any of various large insects of the order Odonata or suborder Anisoptera, having a long slender body and two pairs of narrow, net-veined wings that are usually held outstretched while the insect is at rest. Also called regionally darner, darning needle, mosquito fly, mosquito hawk, needle, skeeter hawk.

Poetry: The art or work of a poet.

Prolixity: Excessive wordiness in speech or writing; longwindedness

Monday, June 29, 2009

Ode to Tomatoes - Pablo Neruda and Erica Jong, My Teachers

›
I wanted to write an ode to the Tomato, goddess of the garden, today after picking that blue bowl above almost full of them from my little g...
14 comments:
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Ars Poetica, Modern Sorcery and Song of the Builders---Poems I Love

›
I share with you three of my photographs and three of my favorite poems by Archibald MacLeish, Charles Simic and Mary Oliver. It's a laz...
11 comments:
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Lucille Clifton, a Woman Who Knows

›
It's been a while since I posted some poems by my favorite poets, so I'll try to remedy that today. I picked up " Blessing the...
11 comments:
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A Little Federico Lorca, A Little Naomi Nye

›
Dragonflies swarm me every time I go outside lately, fighting each other to have their picture taken. This green one posed the longest, so h...
10 comments:
Monday, June 15, 2009

What I Been Up To The Past Few Weeks

›
I'm so happy, happy, happy to have my computer back up and running as of today! Hooray! My hanging baskets are overflowering with the P...
7 comments:
Thursday, June 11, 2009

A Poem to Revive Your Heart, by Lisel Mueller, an Amazing Poet

›
Oh, my dear, sweet friends, how I miss you all! I'm still not up and running at home. Due to my lack of patience and horrible menopaus...
4 comments:
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Tabula Rasa - My Favorite Word Ever

›
Every day I wake up is tabula rasa---the blank page reminds me of this! ~Marion Tabula rasa - (Latin: blank slate) refers to the epistemolo...
11 comments:
Monday, May 25, 2009

Monday Hodgepodge of Poems I Love

›
I awoke to another cloudy day and more beautiful red Roses blooming---yesterday's thunder and clouds produced no rain, so I'm soon o...
11 comments:
Saturday, May 23, 2009

Highway Poem #7 - Instructions Along the Way

›
Happy Saturday! A few years back I wrote a series of poems I called the 'Highway Series', metaphors of the roads and highways as li...
9 comments:
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Sister Cat, This and That---

›
My lovely, exotic beauty, Sophie, who was a friend of my old cat, Ramone. We rescued her from a flood over eight years ago when she was a ti...
12 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Marion
I am a Moonchild born breach on the full moon during hurricane season in South Louisiana. I read; therefore, I am.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.