Pintail Poetry Turns a Year With 100 Reader Candles Burning!
With love and much gratitude, thank you readers. A few of you may have seen this post a few weeks ago, but most readers couldn't open or reply, the settings are fixed. Lets try this again!
In celebration of a year of Pintail Poetry Intermission, I'm putting on my blindfold, turning 3 times and pinning a name from my subscriber list. The winner receives a handmade mail art postcard poem!
The subscriber will be announced next Tuesday with an offer to share their postcard through a guest post. So subscribe if you haven’t and share if moved to :)
In Review | Personal Statements
I practice the craft of poem making as a way in and through, as antidote, to ignite and sustain, to alchemize what is hard, exquisite, and all the in-betweens, as secular sustenance, a place of intermission, a tie of belonging made from what poetry has always been made of, human experience collaged as salve, smelling salt, mirrors, doors, all of it! To un-barrier love, to de-weaponize from the core outward.
I work in the garden, my wild square room, turn to the earth for solace and direction.Â
If there were no birds, the shape-note singers, would there be language? Â
The challenge is the anxiety between my knowing and my doing. Where to put my hands? How to voice with strength and vulnerability.
From human's first creative mark, the arts continue to be a necessary impulse in attempts of sensemaking, our sustaining bridge, our psychological myth-making vehicle which can ground, expose, and lift.
I long to exhilarate more often in this exquisite limited existence. Clarity comes from nature-- wonder's instrument. Cohesion.Â
I believe in unassigned goodness-Godness, the need to belong, to be and to bear witness. Interdependence.
To best save/serve the earth and life on it, is to recognize we are the species creating history. Â
Nature, its constant messaging, sings or cries all the directions needed. Our sacred duty clear. Let go of the learned desire for more than we need.
Transformation is witnessed through acts of inborn love to one another and in the growing things, the elements we are all evolutionary new cousins to. Â
I took a few weeks off from posting due to a camping trip then a technical correction. Thank you for standing by.
Pintail Poetry Projects | Multiple Choice Polls
Thank you for your time responding.
Two things I need to do better:
Learn and practice cross-posting, re-stacking, and the other add-ons offered.
Improve my support for other Substacks by making more time to read and respond to them. The Substack community has been lovely and supportive. Thank you.
Three reasons I’ve continued to post are:
I work best under a deadline.
I work on the reward system, that is, I am rewarded by the act of hitting the publish button which requires sitting and writing a new piece or picking around my stacks of older poems, editing and posting!
You reading my work.
It keeps me going, really, in vital ways. Thank you for your support dear reader.
Thank you dear God for Kristen Ryberg. Thank You
Congratulations love.