Okay, here's my second installment in The Stafford Challenge. As I said yesterday, this is a commitment to write a poem every day for a year, inspired by the wonderful poet William Stafford (1914-1993) Stafford was the U.S. Consultant in Poetry in 1970; this Consultant position is now known as the U.S. Poet Laureate. My second Stafford Challenge poem is again an ekphrastic curtal sonnet (like yesterday), this time after the Grant Wood mural Breaking the Prairie Sod. This is a large WPA mural at Iowa State University, designed and executed by Wood with other artists. You can see this image below the poem. Love and Tradition Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone. ヅ |
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A Roman Circus in the Time of Domitian
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The line, "Mary, poised nearby, living out her vow" has stuck with me for the past couple of days.
I think the line bends for me in multiple ways: religious allusion, how she's there for an instant in this poem with a more somber tone than what's around in the setting. In doing so, the line ironizes the end for me.
Just thinking about it.
DDCPoetry ... thanks for your comment! I didn't think of it that way. Interesting that that makes the ending ironic for you. What's your name?
Darrell!
Love the detail of your poem to capture the image. Your ending adds a wonderful universal connection. I also joined the Stafford Challenge. Good luck!
An ode to toiling the soil and steadfast love. Here(Norway) it might have involved Frey and Freya. Reminds me of Knut Hamsun's book " Growth of the Soil" He used to drink with my uncle, before my time. A sincere , warming poem, well done Vince! Brought me back in time. I lived at my uncles farm for a while as a youth, and helped out with the chores, plowing as well. With a horse somtimes. J.P. Olsen
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