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feathers are tiny poems written by angie werren

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april 1. 2012

to celebrate national poetry month 2012 I’m interspersing my own posts with the work of fifteen very generous poets. visit these talented people on their own lovely blogs by clinking the links you can find here. click #feathered poets to pull up posts; each will be tagged with the poet’s name, too.

my own plans are to revive my *other* poetry blog smoke and participate in NaPoWriMo! stay tuned here, or join me there. thanks for reading and happy poetry month!

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march 1, 2012

this month is I doodle, you ‘ku month over at Yay Words! the lovely aubrie cox is offering up a daily doodle, and inviting everyone to write a haiku or other small poem in respsonse. mine will be there, and here under ‘I doodle you ku’.

stop by ‘yay words!’ and try it yourself!

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february 1, 2012

I did my first pooh-ku in december, spurred by stella pierides’ prompt (pick a ku-ku from michael dylan welch’s essay on his site graceguts). I only did two, then the idea simmered in the back of my very cluttered brain until the lovely melissa allen included one in a recent haikuverse. because I am myself a bear of very little brain –or perhaps no brain at all– I’m going to combine the daily nahaiwrimo prompts for the official haiku writing month with a hopefully relevant excerpt from “winnie-the-pooh” by a.a. milne. they’ll be posted here under pooh, nahaiwrimo and perhaps haibun, since I may put the excerpt first. the haiku alone will be on fb.

thanks for reading. I do appreciate it.

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november 10, 2011

tales I used for my #smalltales project (in no particular order)

the bee and the orange tree
grandmother spider steals the sun
the enchanted canary
anansi and the pot of wisdom
how the milky way came to be
three billy goats gruff
little red riding hood
when mr. terrapin went riding on the clouds
the story of a boy who went forth to find fear
how the earth was made (creek)
the six swans
daughter of the sun
the crow and the pitcher

the sources –

cherokee legends and the trail of tears
*the fables of aesop — 1995
grimm brothers’ children’s and household tales
indian legend.com
folktexts: a library of folktales, folklore, fairytales and myths
native languages of the americas

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november 2, 2011

I wrote this for aubrie cox’s tea with trolls post. she didn’t use it (she did use this…) but I really like it: the allusion to the three billy goats gruff, the perspective. so — a new challenge. I’m going to give the 3ournal/ smallstone a twist — I’ll write from the perspective of a character (or perhaps a god/goddess) in a (hopefully) recognizable folk-tale, fairy-tale or myth. there will still be tea, and three — tagged smalltales.

if you can guess the stories, I’ll share my tea with you.