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America was never America to me,
And yet I swear -
IT WILL BE

https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again/embed

It's on ysabetwordsmith's journal here: https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/12586371.html.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Yeah, we have those too." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

I'll be soliciting ideas for assholes, abusers, victims, bigots, zealots, troublemakers, rebels, tyrants, saboteurs, resistance cells, social engineers, leaders, followers, equals, young elders, ethicists, activists, conservatives, charismatic people, superheroes, supervillains, outcasts, loners, conscientious objectors, other people who reflect on each other, mirroring, criticizing, rescuing, supporting, rebelling, undermining, infiltrating, deceiving, social engineering, working on the car together, clearing out the bad apples, making changes, leading, following, cooperating, negotiating, mediating, bartering, speaking, listening, reading, writing, discovering yourself, testing boundaries, creating connections, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, returning home, homes, counseling offices, churches, temples, meeting halls, capitals, cities, government offices, back rooms, schools, rural areas, farms, supervillain lairs, alien planets, fantasy worlds, other places of reflection, unpleasant revelations, civil unrest, sea change, pesky objects, planned obsolescence, teamwork, teamfamily, complementary strengths and weaknesses, dominance fights, leadership, followship, etiquette, bigotry, confusion, independence, cooperation, virtues, values conflict, loyalty, betrayal, alienation, rebellion, the heroic journey, personal growth, imprint vulnerability, rites of passage, and poetic forms in particular.

https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/11828744.html

I want "The Pursuit of Happiness", and my last two, In the Light of Creative Altruism and Becoming, Evolving, Ascending. I'm going to send $100, that leaves $6.50 to throw at an open epic, A Cave Swarming with Strange Forms of Life.

I want those poems sponsored in memory of the fires today at BOTH Notre Dame Cathedral and Al-Aqsa Mosque. I adored the art and architecture of Notre Dame, even as a Jew. And damaging Al-Aqsa Mosque hurts my Sufi friends, and is too close to the Kotel, as a Jew again.

My first reaction to these fires is the Feminine side of Deity is pretty upset, at both Pope Emeritus Benedict blaming the QUILTBAG for Catholic clergy pedophilia and homosexuality, and the recently publicized horrific punishments for homosexuals and feminists in more radicalized Muslim countries.

Our Lady's tears are ashes. Bismillah, In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, bitter weeping, Mother Rachel is weeping for her children.

Pax, Salaam, Shalom.

If you want to give me a verse for sharing this, anything with a religious or peace theme.

Yes, Ysabetwordsmith is having a sale here https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/11621682.html

I want the final 2 poems involving Projective Altruism and trying to boost to get MORE of Cleaning Achnai's Oven posted for everyone.

Now I need to ask if the quarter price goes in effect again for spending over $100. :-D

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith is running her monthly poetry fishbowl event at https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/11070534.html As she says:

the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "rites / rights of passage." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

I'll be soliciting ideas for adolescents, parents, heroes, villains, fools, clergy and other officiants, explorers, travelers, ordinary people, outcasts, facing thresholds, questioning, debating labels, traveling, accepting the call, refusing the call, getting lost, losing everything, hiding in the closet, coming out, finding your power, speaking truth to power, telling your own story, discovering new places, bedrooms, classrooms, counseling offices, churches, government buildings, the wilderness, cliffs, trails, self-discovery, self-awareness, birth, puberty, getting a job, marriage, sex, parenthood, death, rebirth, radical transformation, the hero's journey, birth control, reproductive freedom, alien transitions, self-sacrifice,
disruptions, adventures, legal rights, famous geographic passageways, and poetic forms in particular. But anything is welcome, really.

https://dialecticdreamer.dreamwidth.org/341618.html to read the linkback poem "Rewriting the Narrative" (9 verses, standalone).

Go, feed the fishes, receive poetry.

Ysabetwordsmith has the Poetry Fishbowl today here, so go and feed the fish!

http://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/10880022.html

My prompts:
1) From a friend of mine, that I already set on your works:

"Open call to the hive mind: please tell me about books that you have read and enjoyed by LGBTQIA+ authors, authors of color, and/or genderqueer/non-binary authors. The further an author can get from cis heterosexual white male, the better." A classic author appreciated by my Goth friend is Jane Austen.

So I will pass back ANYTHING that gets those characters too.

2) Ambrose now has a truth from Shiv, an epiphany, about WHY soup powers and supervillains exist. Have him go speak this truth to power, definitely punching up. ;-)

3) Facing your demons and cleaning up this mess

4) Small courage in Army of One, because the hardest thing after another meltdown sometimes is going BACK into a seemingly simple task, even if you have a plan. Make the plan work, please?

5) First responders, lovers, abuse survivors, and soup care - yes, all together...

Thanks!

I prompted towards "The Day of Our Calamity". When this gets sponsored and posted, I have a poem from one of the Israeli soldiers about these events.

Sharing, more for "Tour Guides For All of Knowledge" please, here and on Facebook.

http://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/10763325.html

Yes, another fishbowl, hooray!

My prompts:

Libraries and their staff - I was hoping either the Winged Graces world or more about the Order of Hypatia in Terramagne. Something cheering, for when having a neurodiverse staff WORKS!

Hey, does the Lacuna have a librarian yet? :-D A good librarian can figure out the right questions to ASK, which helps with all the personal databases available in the Lacuna. Maybe the librarian compiles the database of skillsets?

New books for Victor and Igor!

Another for Fortressa beating up someone emotionally, WITHOUT having to do so physically, when the male has INSISTED on offending. (Hey, lesser amounts of bystander violence for the win! The Swedish guys who stopped that jerk of a rapist sounded like they took TONS of emotional damage AND had no recourse for justice there. One was in tears while reporting to the officers. :-( )

Get the local police officer with telepathic bond to his K-9 officer working in the community, Derreck and Blitz, helping with discrimination or this from Capriuni: http://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/10389397.html?thread=23122837#cmt23122837 Pokemon Go is getting articles about officers using it to connect to kids in the community, AND autistic kids are socializing because so many are sharing their focii right now.


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Ysabet Wordsmith is posting here http://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/10672707.html for the Poetry Fishbowl today.

Hey, it's that time again! If you have ideas the WordSmith wants to make them into poems. Want to help? Prompt about feelings, emotions, words, emotional intelligence, therapists, having problems with understanding feelings, you get the idea... :-)

My prompt: I have waited for this one... :-D Cymru am byth!
Date: 2016-07-05 07:25 pm (UTC)

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-01/emotions-which-there-are-no-english-words-infographic

Hiraeth - In a form the Cymry would recognize, please, but still in English, at least mostly: http://www.writing-world.com/poetry/welsh.shtml, or http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/gwawdodyn-poetic-forms Yes, this was my first self taught language to any extant. Any skill with cynghanedd? :-D

I am Jewish, with ancestry of English Jews from Queen Elizabeth's time, German, and the Pale of Settlement so hurt by the Shoah, but if I need to do historical reenactment, it's Wales I turn to and feel as my home. :-)

Something for that Japanese one of the bubbly feeling of the moment of falling in love, suitable for a gifted 11 year old otaku, set in Polychrome Heroics.

Set Gezelligheid against all those rude implications of the Dutch in America, Dutch treat, Dutch uncle, and how Gezelligheid still defines Dutch descended Americans so many centuries after New Amsterdam became New York City. Yup, my husband. :-)

It's poetry day, with a theme of "gentlemen in distress" this month! Give Ysabet a prompt, she will work it into a poem. She has a superhero world with Polychrome Heroes, An Army of One is an autistic rebellion in space, Frankenstein's Family - where Victor and Igor are DADS to Adam, a medieval commune in Hart's Farm, and even Monster House where the bogeyman is lonely and wants to play. This link gets you to the LiveJournal post, so if you have a LJ account, post there and she'll send you a copy of your poem. http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/3651001.html

If you prefer, go to http://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/10230423.html with a Dreamwidth account and post there. Either way, poetry for everyone! :-)

If you do post a prompt, tell her you're a NEW prompter and we all get a free poem! Thanks.