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Poetry Friday: Summer's Song

6/5/2018

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Welcome to the Poetry Friday round-up on the ridge! I am excited to be hosting this week. I can't wait to read all your offerings! Just hook up your link at the bottom of the post. 

Now that summer has been unleashed here on the ridge, I find myself wanting to spend my days outdoors having fun in the sun. I especially enjoy taking in the sights and sounds of summer evenings. I like to flip back in my notebook to all my summer entries. They are filled with memories, observations, and all things summer-esque. As I was reading, a few lines from the pages of my notebook merged and inspired me to write my poem offering this week. I wish you all a lovely summer's song all season long!
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Invitation to Write:

As a writer, one of my favorite things to do is to sift back through the pages of my notebook from time to time. This helps me find balance and inspiration for future projects or poems. Sometimes, lifting a line or two from your notebook can renew your writing life. I invite you to time travel back into your notebook as well. What stands out to you? Jot down some of your thinking and reflect on your writing journey so far. Lift a line or two. Copy those lines on a new page. Do you notice any connections? Try writing from those lines to see what emerges. 
29 Comments
Matt Forrest Esenwine link
6/7/2018 11:51:10 am

Such a sensuous poem, Kiesha - love the combination of natural imagery with the human body, from the sky and the gulf and the coastline and the breeze, to skin, hands, waists. I feel like I'm there!

Thanks for hosting, too, by the way. (my link goes up just after midnight)

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Michelle Kogan link
6/7/2018 02:36:08 pm

Your poem sounds lovely Kiesha, I'd like to step right into it! I can smell the salty sea breeze among the "white caps," thanks for transporting us to the "gulf!"
I also like to go back into my notebooks and see what's there …
Enjoy your summertime under the moon and along the beach. Thanks for hosting the roundup too!

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jama link
6/7/2018 03:17:26 pm

What a lovely poem, Kiesha. Love all the sensory details and images -- I'm now dreaming of moonlit nights and dancing under the stars. Happy Summer!

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Mary Lee Hahn
6/7/2018 04:16:53 pm

Thanks for hosting! Your poem took me right to a beach! Ahh....

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Molly Hogan link
6/7/2018 04:19:50 pm

What a lovely summer poem, Kiesha. "mystical moonlit interludes" --Ahhhh.... I can feel it beckoning to me! Thanks also for the reminder/invitation to "sift" through my notebooks. I'm looking forward to doing this once summer starts, aka once school is out. Thanks for hosting this week!

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April Halprin Wayland link
6/7/2018 05:10:39 pm

Hi, Kiesha!

The line in your poem that brought me to your beach was the most concrete: "where swimmers bathe waist deep"

Thank you for hosting! My post goes live on Friday morning with a poem about finding a blogging home in celebration of TeachingAuthors' 9th blogiversary. (!) :-)

http://www.teachingauthors.com/2018/06/home-home-on-blog-or-for-love-of-blog.html

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Joyce Ray link
6/7/2018 05:12:05 pm

Your poem has so many delicious images that evoke the slower pace of summer - time to revel in sea breezes, starlight and whitecaps. Thanks for inviting us into your portrait of summer and thanks for hosting!

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Linda Baie link
6/7/2018 05:22:39 pm

Oh my, you've made me want to run down the walk to the ocean this very minute. The poem captures my experience, those "friends parading down the coastline/holding hands in the soft sea breeze." Thanks for hosting, Kiesha, & for the reminder to look back at our notebooks for new ideas!

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Tabatha link
6/7/2018 06:07:52 pm

You're right -- I really should revisit my notebooks and see what's there! Enjoy capturing new memories in your notebook this summer! Thanks for hosting :-)

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Diane Mayr
6/7/2018 06:10:52 pm

I don't keep a notebook, but I do put bits and pieces on sticky notes and old envelopes. I should flip through some of the accumulated paper and see what I do with it! Have a great weekend, Kiesha!

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Linda Mitchell
6/7/2018 06:29:08 pm

oooooh, Diane.....I'd love a pile of your old sticky notes. I'll bet they would be a treasure trove of material. Your comment makes me giggle....in a good way. I love what you write.

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Linda Mitchell link
6/7/2018 06:48:52 pm

Keisha,
Thanks so much for hosting this week. I have enjoyed reading through the comments above about your summer poem. And, I agree the feeling of being in that place is spot on. You know what part I like best? Watching that tanker...watching it get smaller and smaller and thinking of all the places it's going and how I'd love to go too. As always, your invitations are wonderful writing prompts. Thank you for the invite to troll my old notebooks. I wonder what I will find?

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Brenda link
6/7/2018 07:53:22 pm

Makes me want to waltz on the beach, although I'm probably too klutzy on sand. Still feeling spring-like up here, with cool weather and rain all week. It's nice for the plants.

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Rebecca Herzog link
6/7/2018 08:14:42 pm

Thank you for hosting! Your poem reminds me of the warm nights here along the Florida side of the Gulf. I hope you have a wonderful, adventure-filled summer!

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Carol Varsalona link
6/7/2018 09:49:53 pm

Kiesha, I enjoyed hearing about summer at the ridge-Gulf coast, a different perspective from Long Island beaches at the Atlantic Ocean. Please save this sensory poem. After I unveil my Sense-sational Spring Gallery, I will announce the summer gallery. Love this thought, mystical moonlight interludes. This week I was sharing my nondigital notebook stuffed with scraps of papers and asking teachers to create a digital notebook. It is fun reviewing past thoughts as seeds of ideas to grow a poem.

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Alan j Wright link
6/7/2018 11:19:29 pm

Kiesha, Reading your summery thoughts and observances on the coldest day so far in our Australian winter has me slightly off balance. Love your urgings to reread notebook entries. There is so much treasure lying inside the pages of earlier notebooks. We must go rummaging and excavating to see what's back there. Good advice.

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Catherine Flynn link
6/8/2018 03:01:54 am

Thank you for hosting today, Kiesha! Your poem is lovely and reminds me of summers in Rhode Island when I was a kid.

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Irene Latham
6/8/2018 04:50:11 am

Hi Kiesha! Thank you for rounding us up from the ridge and for bringing us summer via the ocean! I spent summers growing up at my grandparents' place on the Florida panhandle... magical indeed! I definitely see the value in revisiting our notebooks. I love what I learn about myself when I flip back. xo

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Little Willow link
6/8/2018 06:07:47 am

Thank you for hosting! Happy Friday, and happy summer!

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Karen Edmisten link
6/8/2018 06:41:33 am

Kiesha, it's lovely -- I feel like I'm there. So serene!

And thanks for hosting!

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Donna Smith link
6/8/2018 07:30:12 am

Like, Diane, I write on scridges of paper most of the time. Then I pile them up, misplace them, find them the next year, then repeat the process. Often though they do get put into poems or spur me in the direction of a poem. It is fun to read older bits of thoughts!

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Ramona link
6/8/2018 07:39:07 am

Oh, what a delightful summer song! Your poem just continues the fun we had yesterday with summer posts at Spiritual Journey First Thursday. Your mention of the gulf horizon took me back to Texas (we lived there for 11 years). And then I had to read your bio on the blog to see if we were talking/thinking about the same gulf. I love your invitation to revisit our notebooks. I'm trying to use mine more this summer so there will be more to revisit in the future.

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Erin link
6/8/2018 08:11:26 am

Oops, forgot to add more of a description to the name when I posted the link ;) Thanks for hosting this week and for your poem. I think when summer gets to be too much, I love summer nights the best. They have a very reflective feeling to them!

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Margaret Simon link
6/8/2018 10:43:28 am

Kiesha, Your poem reflects my experience this week as I accompanied my daughter on a business trip to the Florida beach. I played while she worked. It was wonderful. Thanks for hosting. You've inspired me to look back into my notebooks for any gems hiding there.

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Carol Labuzzetta link
6/8/2018 12:06:11 pm

Lovely poem about a favorite spot - near the water. You are a keen observer of your surroundings. Love the images you evoked! Thank you!

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Kimberly M. Hutmacher link
6/9/2018 03:57:45 am

Love your beautiful summer poem. Thank you for sharing and for hosting this week's round up.

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Heidi Mordhorst
6/10/2018 04:08:21 am

Hi, Kiesha--Thank you for hosting, and for the reminder that all that jotting and recording we do in our notebooks is FODDER! I can see how your notes from different places and times fed that poem. I especially like the last half, the ocean-coastline half. Time to to get to the beach!

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater link
6/11/2018 04:42:27 am

Thank you for hosting and for putting me in a summery mood! Notebooks are such good friends. :) xx

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Carol Varsalona link
8/24/2018 05:27:59 am

Kiesha, can I capture this poem for my summer gallery, "The Art of Summering"? It fits quite well with the theme. Thanks.

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