Hays Travelogue

Today’s Read Write Poem topic was to make a list poem of things we do when we procrastinate, when we are not doing the thing we are supposed to be doing. The ultimate listmaker was Sei Shonagon, the 10th century Japanese courtesan. So here is a prose poem ala The Pillow Book. Things I Am [...]

Today’s Read Write Poem prompt was to write about a road trip or a car. What came out was this pantun. Road Trip I’m on a strange old quest looking near and then far driving east and now west in my fine little car. I look near and then far for this thing that was [...]

I decided to use Emily Dickinson’s “massacre of suns” approach, a two line poem using some of the Wordle words in today’s prompt from Read Write Poem. Briny as a tidal pool the changeling questions the sea.

More found poetry from the Bayezid Hospital Museum – music therapy. The Diseased and Blessed from Bayezid Veli Hazretleri Vakfiye (The Book of Regulations) Ten musicians nourish their spirits. Three vocalists, one flutist, one violinist, one flageolet, one player of dulcimer, one gipsy dancer, and a player of ut -there is no mention of the [...]

I didn’t follow the prompt for this one. Instead I used material from our weekend trip to Edirne, Turkey. This is a found poem from a placard at the Bayezid Hospital Museum. This hospital was famous during the middle ages for its use of alternative therapies for curing the insane. Crazy Spring Time When lovers [...]