HERE, WHERE I AM: Willow Manor

Welcome to where I am, where my kitchen's always messy, a pot's (or a poet) always about to boil over, a dog is always begging to be fed. Drafts of poems on the counter. Windows filled with leaves. Wind. Clouds moving over the mountains. If you like poetry, books, and music--especially dog howls when a siren unwinds down the hill-- you'll like it here.

MY NEW AUTHOR'S SITE, KATHRYNSTRIPLINGBYER.COM, THAT I MYSELF SET UP THROUGH WEEBLY.COM, IS NOW UP. I HAD FUN CREATING THIS SITE AND WOULD RECOMMEND WEEBLY.COM TO ANYONE INTERESTED IN SETTING UP A WEBSITE. I INVITE YOU TO VISIT MY NEW SITE TO KEEP UP WITH EVENTS RELATED TO MY NEW BOOK.

MY NC POET LAUREATE BLOG, MY LAUREATE'S LASSO, WILL REMAIN UP AS AN ARCHIVE OF NC POETS, GRADES K-INFINITY! I INVITE YOU TO VISIT WHEN YOU FEEL THE NEED TO READ SOME GOOD POEMS.

VISIT MY NEW BLOG, MOUNTAIN WOMAN, WHERE YOU WILL FIND UPDATES ON WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MY KITCHEN, IN THE ENVIRONMENT, IN MY IMAGINATION, IN MY GARDEN, AND AMONG MY MOUNTAIN WOMEN FRIENDS.

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

MAGPIE TALES: DEMETER'S DAFFODIL

Now is the season when the goddess Demeter welcomes her daughter Kore (or Persephone) back from the Underworld, her joy at the reunion kindling Spring for the world. Here she finds in the first daffodil her beloved daughter's presence.

DEMETER'S DAFFODIL

(for Willow at Magpie Tales)

To dip

into your corolla

carefully one wintry

finger and touch

to my throat

what I hear begin tuning

up downwind,

the little frogs

chorusing cullowhee

cullowhee, Cherokee

shivaree down by

the rain-swollen Tuckasee-

gee, what sweeter

scent than the attar

of you ever

after come back

to me, Golden

Girl!

My laughing daughter!

Friday, March 5, 2010

MAGPIE TALES: DANCING WITH GANESH

Here's to Ganesh, the Hindu Elephant god, who's ready to have a good time, thanks to Willow's Magpie Tales' writing prompt.

DANCING WITH THE STARS

Ganesh

The Remover of Obstacles

leaps

from the mouse

on which he has been riding

for centuries

shakes off his god- garb

rattles the universe

and rolls the wind up

like a rug from the dance floor

where he does The Funky Pachyderm

Bollywood style

to a standing ovation

on this evening’s Our Galaxy’s Got Talent

for three perfect scores

from the judges

who say he’s the biggest

star they’ve ever had on the show!

(photo from Wikipedia)