October 6, 2025
Poking Around Writing and Painting
Swords Drawn
i pin my spiny
thorny bristly thistle of
an afternoon to
the ground, but it flips me and
declares itself the victor.
—dotty seiter
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3 x 3″; watercolor and watercolor pencil on paper
card #19 in a series of color swatches
2025
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Notes about poem and painting:
• “Swords” is another tanka, a five-line poetry form with syllables in lines of 5 , 7, 5, 7, 7. Such short forms delight me and they force me into précis mode which, as you may have noticed, isn’t where I always land in my poetry-writing!
• Harboring is card #19 in the exploratory series I’ve been generating off and on since July, and I am still learning, learning, learning the ins and outs of watercolor painting and loving every minute, the picking of spiky spiny prickly bristly thorny thistles notwithstanding!
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12 responses to “Poking Around Writing and Painting”
I just walked by my next-door thistle patch after lunch and the thistles are now throwing thistledown all about with wild abandon, as though Wonder Mike had suggested they do a beginning-of-October giveaway : )
Yeah, poking around, tee hee!
I’m up to my elbows working on a 2026 calendar right now in which a few of my look-what’s-in-the-garden color swatches will make an appearance. I might be able to sneak one poem into the calendar format so thank you for activating that idea as an outgrowth of your suggestion above.
Haven’t got around to a book (yet) so thank you a second time for your suggestion above, because maybe I WILL make a book!
Sheila, thanks thanks thanks!
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