Daily Archives: January 21, 2015

Rooster of the New Year

Posted on January 21, 2015 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  Carpe Diem #650, First Rooster Crowing (hatsutori) After New Year’s Eve and after the fireworks we go to bed, because life starts all over … and after a festive New Year’s Eve it’s nice to go to sleep … Continue reading →

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Summer Storm

Posted on January 21, 2015 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  Margo Roby’s Poem Tryouts This exercise asks us to pair opposites, to have them run through our poems woven, one to the other. Jacobik tells us that Yeats believed these opposites, or contraries, are what moves history forward, … Continue reading →

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