This house has
time–
it wanted mountains,
morning songs, shadows,
happy screams.
We are all sailing
another grey sky,
clinging to tattered
margins. Move, expand–
you can hear the universe–
Sing. Ask the wind
if the moon cried
when the universe was young.
Laura at dVerse asked us to take the first lines of the first poems we published each month in 2022 and make a new poem. Three of mine were haibuns, so I used the first line of the haiku part. I’ve also included art from some of those posts. If it sounds Oracle-like, several of the poems were from that source. She always bleeds into the rest of my writing as well.
K. 
This, to my mind, is the best of all the found poems. It reads not just like one of your poems, but ‘a’ poem. It’s the style, the subjects, they all hang together.
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Thanks Jane. I think all those visits with the Oracle helps with a prompt like this. You learn to work with what you are given.
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I think it shows a line of thought that runs through all your poetry. All the lines interconnect.
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As I’ve said before, I basically keep writing the same poem in different ways…
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I’ve said that too 🙂
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This turned out to be a treasure!
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Thanks D–it’s good to go back and see where you’ve been.
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Hi Kerfe, what an interesting challenge. I really enjoyed your poems, especially the first one which really resonated with me.
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Thanks Robbie. At first it seemed overwhelming, but somehow the lines find their place. I like that puzzle-like aspect.
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Yours “make sense,” while at the same time feel like they are chronicling various times over 2022. Kerfe. I like the artwork you’ve included also.
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Thanks Jade. I do think this exercise is a good way to chronicle the year. The art was from the posts, so it was easy to find good matches.
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You’re welcome.
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Lots of ways to write, to be creative. What an interesting discovery has happened from you’re having assembled these scattered lines. These beautiful pictures enhance the lines very well.
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Thanks Aletha. Poetry is like a puzzle you need to assemble anyway, this just intensifies that aspect of it.
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Beautiful – I particularly love this
‘We are all sailing another grey sky,
clinging to tattered margins.’
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Thanks. I feel like that describes the last few years well. Hopefully there will be more sun in 2023!
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This is great Kerfe! My former keyboardist, rest his soul, could have put a music bed to this and it would’ve made a wonderful song. Well constructed my friend.
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Thanks Rob. In my extreme youth I wrote words for my boyfriend’s band–they were good with music, but mystified when it came to lyrics. I wish I had some of those songs, but they have disappeared into the distant past.
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oh gosh. I didn’t first realize you were listing 12 months worth. Would be less intimidating (do I hope, but that would be wrong of me) they’re not all so stunning as the first. This gonna take me some while! (truth tho… a not painful task)
And that sunrise image, simply global to witness!
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Thanks Neil. I just included the links to all the poems because the prompt requested it…no need to read them all! That photo was a composite of several I took–they merged together well.
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I especially love the first one.
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I think you have special insight into houses.
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Thank you. And yes, I would agree. I can’t even begin to express how many feelings and layers there are to my interest in houses.
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It shows.
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This turned out to be quite lyrical especially the second and third verse. The artwork is lovely.
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Thanks! I myself was surprised at how it came together.
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The verses and your artwork made for an unforgettable experience! These are spectacular! 🤩
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Thanks Tricia.
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Love the collarge of art work and poems specially the first one about the house with time. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Grace.
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Great stuff. I particularly like the last haiku. What a haunting question.
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I think those words were from the Oracle. She likes questions. Thanks Suzanne.
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hauntingly exquisitely, and your art matches your words so perfectly Kerfe!
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Thanks Kate–the art came from the original posts, so it was easy to match them to the words.
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aha very clever!
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it works so incredibly well – but then your writings are very lyrical – the illustrations interject beautifully
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Thanks Laura. This is a good exercise. It focuses the mind, which is something I can always use.
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I could detect The Oracle at work here, Kerfe!
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Thanks Ingrid. She’s always around it seems.
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It does sound like the Oracle throughout. So poignant–that yearning house and the the question of the moon crying.
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Thanks Merril. It reflects 2022 well I think. But then our words are always intertwined with our place and time.
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You’re welcome.
Yes, you’re right. We can’t really separate ourselves from who we are.
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Love how you did it like something entirely new… with artwork and all.
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This is deeply poignant, K! I especially like; “Sing. Ask the wind if the moon cried when the universe was young.”💘💘
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Thanks Sanaa. It was a good way to review the year.
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