It came in sections, as most things do...donated from there, purchased from here. Drilled, painted, squared and hung. And what I thought was going to be the most comforting and beautiful thing, looked rather helter skelter, and my mind just cascaded around the edges with no intent of joining in. So I uprooted anchors, and hauled it down the hall, where it is in a somewhat more manageable chaos. It beckons without imploring. It rattles, but causes no deafness. My poetry wall stands at my entrance and exit, which just about sums it up.
What are the three columns?
ReplyDeleteWander
Verbs, Nouns, and everything else!
DeleteLol you are sooooooo much more organised than I...
DeleteFor me they would all be in the "everything else!" column...lol I was thinking about doing this when I saw your post, but now I am sooo discouraged.
Haha yet another reason to give yourself credit Annie! :-)
Wander
ACK! It's not supposed to cause discouragement! Anyway, I'm not so sure the categories are a good idea. Part of the fun of poetry magnets is that within the jumble of words, phrases jump out and inspire. In categories as they are now, though it is easier to find words, it's harder for the words to find you.
DeleteIt's very neat!
ReplyDeletewhat does that poem there say? (everything else says so much.)
ReplyDeletewe have a pie plate on the microwave full of words and dust. somewhere under the kid's fading paper projects on the fridge there are a few poems that have been accidentally altered over time.
what is poetry?
xo
erin
the delirious circle opened,
Deletemoaned like a pierced pool,
flooding, bleeding belly
that it was
Don't ask me what it means. Just words that drew my attention and took off.
It's magnificent, my Annie. I'ma gonna make me one, too. I have drawers full of magnetic words that used to be on the frig, but the cats thought they were cat toys and kept swatting them off. :-) You're my inspiration!!! xoxo
ReplyDeleteOf all people, YOU should have a poetry wall my Queen. Love you!
Deletehello annie, look at all those words! there is space and means for anything you might hear or say.
ReplyDelete"It beckons without imploring" i this sentence. because. this is the kind of friend and the kind of person i want to be. the kind i hope i am at least some of the time.
would you mind adding 'annie rocks' to your wall? okay, i know there is no word for annie. so make it she rocks or i rock or we rock or rocks have soft innards. (who knew?)
wishing you a good weekend with yourself and others
your pal
kj
That's a wonderful aspiration, and I see God in a similar fashion...beckoning without imploring.
DeleteRocks have soft innards...Can I steal that quote?
DeleteWander
Ah, yes. I see it. Feel it.
ReplyDeleteOh, my, that is beautiful! Is that a picture you took?
ReplyDeleteYes, I took them both with different "film" in the Hipstamatic.
DeleteA poetry wall? That's a cool idea. But posting by my entrance, I could never do. Maybe in a nook where only I can see.
ReplyDeleteEverytime I click on your blog I'm reminded of how hard it is to come by the things we value most.
I don't know Annie, sometimes the limitation of words is so stark ... how do we say what needs to be said without words? I wish I knew more answers. Maybe I need a word board too.
ReplyDeleteMuch love and warm hugs to you Annie. I'm sorry to have been mostly offline recently. I am re-balancing things this end and will hopefully be around a bit more from now on. xx Jos
It is frustrating to hunt for words on the board and not find them...but that's not really the intent. The intent is inspiration. I'll hunt around, find a couple of words to string together as my eye bounces over them, and my mind takes over from there. You never have to apologize for being offline...for LIVING! Ha. Wishing you more of it Jos, and lots of hugs during all that balancing. It ain't easy. Love you Citrus.
Deletei tried those magnets once. finn hid them somewhere. maybe once she starts really reading we could try it again.
ReplyDeletealthough now i have a baby that will probably like to stick small things inside his gullet.
(i talk myself out of a lot of things.)
I will send you a duster and you can organize then. :)
ReplyDeleteAnnie, in response: I am posting my favorite tidbits, based on the A-Z theme. The Billy Ray scene for B was special, because it had the Dale Earnhardt hood in it. My wife was a Dale fan, and is in love with Dale Jr. 88 is her car (we watched it yesterday).
ReplyDeleteSo this scene meant something to her.
Tomorrow is C, and I am making an attempt at prose-poetry. Stop in and critique.
As for Billy Ray being a "breast man," I've always thought that term was redundant. You just need to say "man." The rest is implicit.
- Eric
I know! I had a ton of tiny magnets on my fridge and the chaos only added to my own. Now I have a giant wall painted in chalkboard paint in the kitchen. Wait. My kitchen is barely 6 feet by 15 at most :). It's on the small wall, but it feels big :).
ReplyDeletethe poetry wall looks like it has a skirt:) your eye for visual appeal was at work, looks like.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! You know you're an A-type when you organize the magnetic words on your poetry wall (that's meant to inspire beauty out of chaos and let your left brain take a nap for a while) into three sorted columns. LOL! I would have done the same thing...hell, I would have alphabetized the words. :)
ReplyDeleteWe're using magnetic words as part of our wedding favors, and I'm kind of stupidly excited about that.