Greetings, all! It's the first Friday of the month, the world is watching with anxious eyes as both a war and a shift in global politics takes place, and just to keep our hearts full, the Inklings are writing to a challenge set by Margaret Simon:
"Choose a quote that speaks to you. Write a poem that responds to the quote. The words can be used as a golden shovel or throughout the poem or as an epigraph."
It just so happens I have a little something I prepared earlier to answer this challenge. I participated again this year in Laura Shovan's February Poetry Project, where a group of about 40 write to a daily prompt on a theme and share and respond to each others' poems. It's a great experience in so many ways and I always come away with a pile of drafts I wouldn't have written otherwise. This year the theme was TIME.
It was a prompt from Lisa Vihos on February 11 that reminded me I owned the climate-feminist anthology ALL WE CAN SAVE: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, the book I posted about a couple of weeks ago (here's the website/newsletter/ community).
She shared an excerpt from an essay by Sherri Mitchell, "Indigenous Prophecy and Mother Earth," included in the book. This essay comes from the first of eight sections in the book, called "Root". I chose a different striking line and wrote this golden shovel.
Here's Sherri Mitchell reminding us how the body keeps the score.
That's the whole post for today [EDIT: NO IT ISN"T! I have neglected to link to my fellow Inklings posts!] Check out whom and how the rest of the Inklings quoted and wrote!
Linda Mitchell @ A Word Edgewise
Margaret Simon @ Reflections on the Teche
Kat Apel is rounding us up today at Kat's Whiskers, and sharing her newly released book! See you there.
