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The Best of #PostItNotePoetry 2015

3/7/2015

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Every February for the past three years, I have participated in a Facebook group called Post It Note Poetry. The goal of the writers in this group is to write small poems on post-it notes, pair the poems with an image, take a picture of it, and upload the resulting photo of the image and poem. 

I didn't have a supply of post-it notes this year so I utilized the software app called "Stickies" on my Macbook, downloaded some free, "no attribution required" images from Pixabay, and combined stickies and pics to create my Post It Note poems. 

In this challenge for the previous two years, I was never able to write a poem per day and end the month with 28 brand spanking new poems. This year I was able to do it. Hooray!

I experimented with some different forms: did a trial and error (a couple of errors, but good ones) with tanka, wrote a new list poem, wrote an acrostic poem that was the result of a bibliomancy prompt where I picked the title and subject from a random page in a book (happened to be Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed, page 121, my finger landed on the words "sweet-scented paper), and as usual wrote some haiku-forms (haiku poetry with more than one stanza) and some free-form. 

I wrote more then 28 poems for the month of February. I estimate the number of poems I wrote is around 40. Not all of them made the cut for Post It Note Poetry. Some of them were too long; some were not good enough and need a lot of work before they are ready to be submitted to a poetry journal. But some of the 28 poems I posted to the Facebook group will be submitted for possible publication. I hope one or two of them may end my long dry spell in publishing. 

Some of the best poems I wrote in February 2015 for the Post It Note Poetry are listed below: 
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A short Goodread's review of "The Handmaid's Tale"

3/7/2015

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The Handmaid's TaleThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book would have gotten 5 stars if the ending hadn't made me angry. To be honest, most of this book pissed me off, but I loved it anyway. It's a cautionary tale about what could happen if the Westboro Baptist Church were to take over America. A warning that our founding fathers, looking backward at the mistakes already made with governing by a religious group (the Puritans) made this country secular for a reason. In this book there's a perpetual war between the Christian sects. We never know the name of the one in the book, except it practiced most fervently the Bible and used this to enslave women in a quasi-harem, passed around from high-ranking official to high-ranking official because their wives were thought to be infertile and there was a population shortage. Always the wives. To even suggest a man might be shooting blanks was blasphemy. And the population was so low, it seemed, mainly because they were killing anyone and everyone that might be thought to disagree with them or to be of no use. This novel is great, though. Through and through an exemplary piece of dystopian literature. I suggest women, and men, read this with a eye toward a progressive future that makes sure something like this never happens. Because, I swear, if the women who fought for my rights to vote and work and all that have their hard work and suffering undone; if those rights are revoked in some unhappy future and we go back to the way shit was for women in biblical times, I swear by my black goth tee shirts I'm coming back from the grave, I'm bringing all those bad ass ladies from history with me, and together we're going to haunt some motherf**kers!

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