Hello, Poetry Friday, I’m so glad to be here!
Thank you, to Donna at MainelyWrite for hosting today.
I’ve been collecting Laura Shovan’s found objects poetry project images on a google doc.
I’ve always been attracted to “found” objects for poetry. It’s welcoming, an invitation to join in and discover. Thank you, Laura, for your daily inspiration.
The heart holds curved pools
while geometry refracts
life trapped in silver.
Julieanne Harmatz 2016
My thumb and finger would drive the eraser wheel
along the edge of my mother’s desk.
The scalloped metal scraping against my skin,
I pressed and spun a path
leaving
pink line
memories
on the wooden surface
along the edge of my mother’s desk
until the blue broom turned
to whisk them
away.
Julieanne Harmatz 2016
To Read To Write To Be 
Thanks for sharing your poems. Love the refracted reflection. I didn’t write to this one. (yet) Maybe I’ll catch up this weekend. The different poems fascinate me. Laura has given us all a gift for her birthday.
These were both so different and so beautiful. I love the simplicity of the first alongside that beautiful sculpture. I also loved thinking about you as a child playing with your mother’s eraser. Thank you for sharing your poetic thinking.
I love them both, Julieanne, but especially your response to the eraser. Those “pink line memories” are special.
Life trapped in silver… oh, that could mean so many things! Thank you for sharing.
Both poems are delightful, Julieanne! “The scalloped metal scraping against my skin” – I remember that! =)
These are wonderful Julieanne. I love this line: “The heart holds curved pools” It’s amazing to me how so many people have used these photos to create so many different poems, sometimes even using some of the same words.
I think it is fun to see one poet’s poems from the collection all on one page. We should all do that. We may see some connections in our own works that way. But I especially like seeing familiar poems and making the connection that one person did these. Seems cohesive then!