[stylist] a random ten word poem for Myrna

Tue Jun 12 19:57:52 UTC 2012

Jackie, WOW!  I love the images of cobwebs in a  dusty room as an analogy 
for memories.. and you did this from doing the  dictionary page flip? That's 
what a friend of mine calls it.  I am totally  impressed with my jaw dropped 
open!  I can't wait to see  more!
This is exemplary writing!

Myrna

In a message dated 6/12/2012 2:02:35 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
jackieleepoet at cox.net writes:

Myrna,
I am going to attach my first random word poem, using ten  that we had to
select ourselves by letting the dictionary fall open ten  times and point
without looking. I was aghast at the words, but this is my  effort. While I
have edited it since and deleted the word list, I thought  you would like to
see the original.
In the next e-mail, I will send the  twenty random word poems, first 
forward,
then backward.
Take your time  with them.
Thanks for this inter-change. I learn so  much.
Jackie

-----Original Message-----
From:  stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of  Myrna Badgerow
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 10:26 AM
To: Writer's  Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] new poem: Living  It

Jackie, do what must. I will wait for these gems but I am so looking  
forward
to reading them.  I have seen the backwards poems before and I  have to 
admit
my brain shuts down at the mere thought. Thank you so much  for the kindness
about my work. I feel the same about you  How blessed  we are on the list to
have the chance to share and learn from each  other.  
Myrna

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 11, 2012,  at 11:55 AM, "Jacqueline Williams"  
<jackieleepoet at cox.net>
wrote:

> Myrna,
> Forgive me  a cliché, This just blows my mind. I am familiar with the
> assignments  of either ten or twenty random words, but seldom have I read
one
>  with such wisdom and a philosophy of life embedded in it.
> Your choice  of words was not an easy one, but your use of them for
examples
>  taking us on your trip of life is masterful.
> You are indeed an  exceptional poet.
> At a later time, I will send you my random word poem  and the one written
> backward from the same words and theme.
> I  must get to a book revision for an August deadline, and until then,  I
just
> hope to keep up minimally.
> Keep up the significant  work that you consistently produce.
> Jackie
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org  [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of  KajunCutie926 at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 6:36 AM
> To:  stylist at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [stylist] new poem: Living It
>  
> Last night during our division board meeting I  mentioned a poem  I'd 
> written that had really sprained the brain.  We were   given fifteen words
to
> 
> choose from and at least one of the  words must be  included in a poem.
You
> could 
> use one  word or all fifteen or any number in  between.  Well, in a very  
> fun-spirited email the gauntlet was thrown down  and like the  bull
charging
> the 
> red cape I decided to give all fifteen  a  go.  
> Here are the words we had to use, followed by  the  poem.  It is both 
> attached and in email.
>  
> The required words to choose from:  compare,  quality,  brick, cookie, 
tea,

> division, arch, mortality, orchestra,  substitute,  split, diving, flat, 
> juvenile, siding.
>  
> Living It
> 
> 
> How  does one compare the  quality of life
> to the quality of living it? Perhaps  there  is
> no comparison because the life we are given
> is not our  choice but  the living of it is.
> There is a division, an  imaginary arch that  will
> split the entities of choice and  predetermined
> reality. This will  impact the other but not  always
> determine the journey of our mortality.   Extraordinary
> circumstances may do this but even then we are  often
> given a  chance to change the seemingly unchangeable  path.
> The brick, on the hand,  would likely not choose to be a  brick,
> but it has no recourse, no offered  options. Nor  does
> the cookie and tea have that choice as they are but the   culinary 
> products  of another's whim. Neither can substitute a  different path.
> Our avian friends  or their friends of nature  cannot truly conduct
> an orchestra of their  choosing for the  arias are already written
> and the conductor already holds  His  baton. But how fortunate are we! 
> We  can choose to go diving  into life headlong knowing we may land
> on our feet or  flat upon  our backs. We can peel away the siding of
> our juvenile dreams,  our  adolescent schemes, allowing
> each to spill into our adult  truth, into the  life we have been
> handed, and there the magic  begins!
> We mold and we  sculpt. We paint and we write. We  tidy
> up some imperfections, leaving a few  to keep us  honest.
> And we live! We take each moment into our hands and   we
> breathe of it. We feel the wind and we touch sky. And we  thank
> the  master conductor for allowing us to offer our  own
> contributions to living and  leaving our imprint on a life  that
> we hope will be remembered well.
> How  very fortunate  we are, indeed! 
> 
> 
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