A selection of beautiful poems

Try not to love these over the weekend..

Hello,

Last Sunday our poetry prompt was set by

LeeAnn Pickrell

and I’ll be honest I did this one more than once. I even shared it with my journaling community on our Sunday morning journal session because it linked in really nicely with a nature journaling workshop I’m running next week. So yes, this is a recommend to go and check it out if you missed it. And a thank you to LeeAnn.

And yet, I have no poem to show at the end of it. No sculpted words On Beauty. Partly because I didn’t get round to going back over my scribbles and turning them into something. And partly because I particularly enjoyed having a play this week. I enjoyed the pre-writing bit a lot. I think I’ll go back to this prompt and I’m sure I’ll go back to some of the notes I made at a later stage. I grasped a few snippets. I uncovered the threads of some new thinking. The odd one line. I sank back into my chair and I enjoyed myself. And that really can be enough.

Here are a few poems which play around with beauty in some form, well, beautifully…

Instinct by Joy Sullivan from her collection, Instructions for Travelling West

The first is Instinct by

Joy Sullivan

from her new collection, Instructions for Travelling West.

These I have loved, by Sarah Crossan

These I have loved, by Sarah Crossan, from, Tomorrow is Beautiful.

Extract from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman - listen/read the full thing here.

For Keeps, Joy Harjo, found via Poets.org

For Keeps by Joy Harjo from the collection, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.

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Did you manage to pull together a poem this week? How did you find the writing prompt? Was it a week where writing came easy?

Or if you’re purely here for the reading, which one of the poems above is your favourite?

Let’s chat in the comments,

Nelly x