Poetry Rules

If not, you should! How? I have many ideas, so I'll gladly share some with you. Make this day special, since it is Poetry we are talking about! 1. READ POETRY . This is fairly easy. Grab a book and breathe poetry. 2. WRITE POETRY . Everyone is a poet, so do it! 3. BUY POETRY . Make yourself a present or buy a poetry book for a friend or a relative. 4. SHARE POETRY . Post poems or poetry quotes on social networks a/o hand poetry quotes at work! 5. LISTEN TO POETRY . Surf YouTube and enjoy listening to some poetry. 6. COLLABORATE WITH OTHER POETS . Organize an improvised reading or write something together. 7. PROMOTE A POET . Yes, please! Promote a poet you love. 8. DO SOMETHING POETIC . Enjoy the sunset. Take a walk in a wood or in the countryside. Love! 9. CHOOSE A LINE and make it your motto. 10. SEND ME A POEM . Your own or someone else's. I'll truly appreciate it!

It looks like writing sometimes fails me. I have tried to write a good amount of words on the WIP, today, but it didn't work as I wanted. Yet, this morning, out of the blue, I wrote a poem inspired by Federico García Lorca 's murder. Images and words blended together in less than 2 minutes. I incorporated three of Lorca's lines in it, too. It amazes me how he had predicted his own death and that his body would be buried in a mass grave. The prescience of poetry? Or, the darkness of duende ? Then I realized I had been murdered... They never found me? No. They never found me.

I was not familiar with this picture of Patti Smith by Lynn Goldsmith . I truly love it. She is the perfect guerrilla girl in it. In Nocturne , my most recent published poem--and chapbook--that I dedicated to Patti, I compare her to Joan of Arc . Well, it looks like Lynn and I share the same point of view. Gotta love any woman & poet warrior!