In celebration of World Poetry Day with The Last Hoisan Poets & Friends at the de Young, poets of all ages and abilities are invited to contribute a cinquian to this collaborative project, inspired by the sculptural art of Ruth Asawa.
To participate, visit ArtsEd4All to create Poetry in Motion.
One Eye
A
community
poem
started
during
a
power
outage
on
March 21, 2023,
when
Nellie Wong
wrote
one
cinquain
by
candlelight
on
her
iPhone
One eye
faces body
tremulous black gray shape
Her hands of yellow glow twisting,
turning woman tree
Nellie Wong
March 21, 2023
She bends
tears, rivulets
shadow light beams walls of
nature, disappear, safe to shore,
then out, out to sea
Nellie Wong
March 21, 2023
wire
lithe nimble hands
bending weave curving forms
petite artist for shaping savvy
flowing
Flo Oy Wong
March 22, 2023
Floating
like spiderwebs.
Strong, gentle and flexing
patient, living undulations
Thank You!
Anonymous
March 22, 2023
woven
shadow breathing
motionless spiraling
thin lines trace clock ticking moments
with light
Margaret Warren
March 23, 2023
Oh sphere
I am lost in
edges, time and pendulums
entwined in a drive train comet
pocket
Margaret Warren
March 23, 2023
healing
knitting vine line
open book of secrets
blessing magic incantation
love made
Margaret Warren
March 23, 2023
within
a wire piece
Ruth Asawa weaves to
reveal what she carries in
her heart
Flo Oy Wong
March 24, 2023
he, my
grandson, points to
a woman inside the
round wire mesh, why is she there
he asks
Flo Oy Wong
March 24, 2023
dancing
shadows shifting
looped wire inspirations
delicate branch and rootlike forms
Alive
Mara Grimes
March 25, 2023