a poetry friday welcome to all

Greetings, and let's get this party started! 

Outside my early-morning seat in our "library lounge" is our patio, and next to our patio is a small, bushy tree that spent all winter holding on tight to a lovely little nest, invisible to us until fall came and blew the branches clean.

Now the tree has popped vibrant green leaflets, and there the nest waits.  I wrote this for Amy Ludwig Vanderwater's "small things" poetry challenge, made alongside her interview with Michelle Heidenrich Barnes at Today's Little Ditty, and in honor of her new book Everyday Birds.


hopefull    

 
in between the greening
      branches of a tree
an empty nest is nestled,
      waiting there to see

if again this season
      someone small may light,
line it full of fluff
      and hope for future flight

(c) Heidi Mordhorst 2016


Now surely all these bird poems flying around must put you in mind of this song:

posted to YouTube by machoflame

That's an example of a Poetry-Music Match-Up (and I hope it has you feeling as deeply copacetic as I do posting it).  This year, inspired by Tabatha's "Poem-Song Match-Up" project, I'm going to spend April posting such match-ups and I'd like to invite YOU to submit your pairings.

The airwaves are wiiiide open!  You can submit:

·         your own poem with music that you've realized goes with it, as above,

·         your own music with a poem that goes with it,

·         someone else's poem with someone else's music to match, 

·         song lyrics that you find particularly poetic,

·         poems written AS song lyrics

·         poems inspired by songs,

·         songs written about poems, 

·         poems written about songs, 

·         favorite nursery rhymes (which often have tunes),

·         and any other poetry-music combinations that make sense to you.

We'll all need to be very careful with attribution, of course.

I'll aim to have a daily posting, but I'll need to queue them up during Spring Break, so I would love to have your submissions starting any time now through Saturday, April 2.  (I'm sure I'll be willing to take them after that, too, but it will be harder to be organized!).  Send your ideas, texts, videos and links to me here.

And now, leave your links below and I'll be rounding up old-school style too (which for me means that I will actually have time to comment on each and every post), on either side of a delightful poets' birthday lunch with Tabatha and Laura S.  Thanks for stopping by, and I wish a flighty spring to all!

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