Fall Gogparty ~ Part 2 selection

30 Tuesday Nov 2010

Posted by Claire in Art, Drawing, gogyohka, Guest writer, Photography, Poetry, Tanka, Twitter Gogparty

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winter gathering

driving home

every autumn evening

I measure the emptiness

of my heart

against the moon

http://twitter.com/alotus_poetry

I gather

your smiles

they remind me

wherever I go

I am home

http://twitter.com/LunaJune

an old skipjack

comes home to the place

of her birth,

and all the old people

come out to meet her

http://twitter.com/kujakupoet

the winds of war

gather on their border

will they come to blows

again this Korea

divided North and South

http://twitter.com/haikumonk

the spider

gathering her web

fly fishing

in the skies

within my home

http://twitter.com/hkfeaga

Florida

this winter

of spring days

just catching

my heart

http://twitter.com/KrisLindbeck

childhood

“are we home yet?”

now alone in my car

and under my breath

I ask constantly

http://twitter.com/CoyoteSings

Crisp clear night

time to go home;

in my spacesuit

I open the door

and step off the Earth

http://twitter.com/expatinCAT

under the moon

she dances with stars

nights under her spell

softly

she returns home

http://twitter.com/BeyondRoses

home

is the cat

waiting

at the door

pleased to see you

http://twitter.com/sgwarnog

this, too

was once a home -

raindrops gather

in an empty

snail shell

http://twitter.com/cirrusdream

her peeled skin

floor gathered

exposed to elements

beyond her control

you can see her heart

http://twitter.com/sanded77

Stuck at home

on my own

gathering dust

like ornaments

on the shelf

http://twitter.com/Firebrand12

must leave home

to buy some groceries

trusting the party

will save it’s highlights

for my return

http://twitter.com/MarcoBom_74

wandering

mindlessly

looking for

the place called home

my home is you

http://twitter.com/sheluvsu2

“When you kids

leave home,”

Mom says,

“Then I’ll buy expensive

face creams and perfumes.”

http://twitter.com/tankaqueen

I gather up

the loose threads

of my life

and stitch together

a quilt of memories

http://twitter.com/Charm47

here

when I found poetry

I knew

my heart

was home

http://twitter.com/tinanguyen

my warm shirt

washed once in hot water

small

and even smaller

I miss my little daughter

http://twitter.com/offthepagepoems

Loved ones

across the

four winds

once gathered

are home

http://twitter.com/mwwise

his broad hand

reclines

at home

in the small

of my back

http://twitter.com/myearthgirl

can they really

read my mind

at dusk

crows gather

in the fields

http://twitter.com/monkeywillow

rain oh rain

home to melancholy -

gather leaves

on my yard

and down the street

http://twitter.com/shayruldawn

whiners gather

together they drone

so much easier

than finding eons of happiness

on their own

http://twitter.com/dsceiorg

in a world

where nothing

seems real

i have found you

now, i’m home

http://twitter.com/Ysabeluna

here,

where the wild geese gather

in winter,

your heart will find

the end of a long flight

http://twitter.com/kujakupoet

Mom making a pie

I loan her my thumb

and then my favorite job–

poking a hole

so the blackbirds can sing

http://twitter.com/tankaqueen

in the musty bedsit

of my absence

I trawl

the white noise

for blips of home

http://twitter.com/ldwilkinson

tiny souls in trees

calming my mind

never more than two branches

away

from home

http://twitter.com/CoyoteSings

Or do I still live

in the kitchen

with my mother cooking

or lying in the honeysuckle

in the empty lot?

http://twitter.com/KrisLindbeck

ripped out

but still beating

coursing with mother’s love

home

is where the heart is

http://twitter.com/ThoseThr3Words

his gait

gathers glances

from the room:

nary an eye-white

is seen

http://twitter.com/InVinceWil

a haven

cloistered and safe

a small flame gutters

deep inside

the home within

http://twitter.com/Haikujots

Never mind, my friends

we will continue

#gogparty at my bamboo home

with some sake

and sprouting moon poetry

http://twitter.com/amoz1939

Home

is wherever the cat

feels comfortable enough

to sleep

on your lap

http://twitter.com/Nature__Lover

*our youngest gogparty-goer

and all the photographs in this post

are by her (Amy)

Freya -the stray kitten who made her home with us for 3 months before she found a permanent home

Thank you to all who came to the gogyohka party

on Twitter, please scroll down and see the selection from the first half or click on the gogparty link at the end of this post.

..poetry is where the heart is.

Gogyohka Party Fall 2010 ~ gather & home: a selection

24 Wednesday Nov 2010

Posted by Claire in gogyohka, Guest writer, Photography, Poetry, Tanka, Twitter Gogparty

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On November 23rd Tina Nguyen and I hosted the second Gogparty of 2010 on Twitter, inviting the Twitter community of micropoets across the globe to share their 5 line gogyohka poems on the themes ‘home’ and ‘gather’. There were some new faces alongside established published poets and it was lovely to watch the party unfold. A good time was had by all, judging from the feedback!

I have tried to represent as many poets as possible here, with links to their Twitter pages. The poet’s name and link appears beneath each poem. These poems came largely in part one of the proceedings, so, with so many to get through, I will post a second selection in the next few days… if you don’t have a poem here today, stop by again soon for part two!

Thank you everyone who joined us. I hope the spirit of community expressed through poetry brightened your day a little. (For those of you in the southern hemisphere, lucky you..it’s freezing here!!)

Best Wishes,

Claire (@ThoseThr3Words)

—

sounds of a party

from along the street

but with nothing to wear

nothing to bring

i stay at home

http://twitter.com/forgottenworks

the first flicker

of sunset

gathers at one corner