As my gift this holly day season I'd love to offer any of you a sprig of poetry, now through December 22rd I'm writing whimsical acrostic name poems. Use for a gift tag, tucked in a handwritten card or even an e-card with images or music attached for someone special.
Better yet, simply give yourself a yuletide fortune cookie. Please leave a comment with the name, and I'll email you the poem. (If it's a surprise for another reader of this blog, send me private email - see top right of my website for address.)
Here are a few I sent out spontaneously as New Year's blessings this January 1st.
To Peter:
petals,
ethereal
touch eternity
...reverberate
To Yvette:
yodeling valleys
etch t-i-ME
trust ease
Here's one I wrote last night as seasonal thank-you for one of my teachers, Mukti:
Mistletoe
ushers kiss
- Totality innocent
Today, for Briana:
Beauty
reverberates
intimate allness
- neverending Aria
(Yeah, reverberates is one of my favorite words.)
Today, for Daisy:
December angels,
impish
- squealing "Yo!"
p.s. I'm ending my emphasis on microblogging (i.e. Twitter) over blogging, and will be writing again here.
p.p.s. So much to catch you up on, or not. I could tell you I started reading The Road today on a recommend by a writer I met at Moab Confluence, or that I saw my first ladder-backed woodpecker flitting on a cactus in the Mojave desert last Thursday, or that I'm living temporarily in Las Vegas, or that this story, Pearls Before Breakfast, had me crying in a Borders cafe this week. Or that my Mom found for me my birth time tonight after decades of asking - 6:15 pm, so that I know my Saturn is in Pisces, and thus I could have skipped engineering college: "Your road to success may be in the artistic, spiritual, or even the psychic."
ART CREDIT "Petals," by MindofKa; I included it in an e-card in the poem for Peter above.
Hi Evelyn,
I am totally smitten with a lady that has recently come into my life. I enjoy your blog and writing so I thought I'd take you up on your offer to pen a poem. Her name is Patricia.
All the best to you through our holiday season and beyond.
Brent
Posted by: Brent MacKinnon | Dec 18, 2008 at 09:04 AM
Glad you will be writing here again...have a great holiday!
Posted by: Gene | Dec 18, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Evelyn,
Seasons Greetings from Bath in England.
Writing this in the pub on the way home from a wet windy gathering around a fire in the woods with a bunch of MKP (Mankind Project) men. The closest Thursday to the solstice.
I've not been able to hold my daughters hand for over two years - two years and two days to be precise, her mother did send me a photo which came today though, and that is progress.
Abi Lilybelle Ruby May.
That's her name, a poem for part of it from across the seas would be a grand thing.
One day I'll get to the states. I believe my father lives in Redding, California. When the USAF sent him over here he lived in El Sobrante, across the bay from San Francisco. If ones unknown parent has to come from somewhere "across the bay from San Francisco" seems pretty cool from here.
With love, Paul Loving Jaguar
Posted by: Luckypaul | Dec 18, 2008 at 05:03 PM
Evelyn,
Seasons Greetings from Bath in England.
Writing this in the pub on the way home from a wet windy gathering around a fire in the woods with a bunch of MKP (Mankind Project) men. The closest Thursday to the solstice.
I've not been able to hold my daughters hand for over two years - two years and two days to be precise, her mother did send me a photo which came today though, and that is progress.
Abi Lilybelle Ruby May.
That's her name, a poem for part of it from across the seas would be a grand thing.
One day I'll get to the states. I believe my father lives in Redding, California. When the USAF sent him over here he lived in El Sobrante, across the bay from San Francisco. If ones unknown parent has to come from somewhere "across the bay from San Francisco" seems pretty cool from here.
With love, Paul Loving Jaguar
Posted by: Luckypaul | Dec 18, 2008 at 05:03 PM
I forget to mention anyone can request a poem for themselves as well - that's certainly a special loved one too.
Brent, Thank you for holiday wishes. The best to you and yours. I just sent your poem for Patricia to your email.
Gene, Thanks so much for the welcome back.
Paul, No worries at all. Abi Lilybelle Ruby May is not so long at all. So overworldy, like faerie or angelic realms sort of name. Could you tell me what's your daughter's age is?
Jaguars. I adore the big cats such as mountain lions, jaguars - very much a totem of mine too. It may take me 1-2 days to email to you. Cheers.
Posted by: Evelyn Rodriguez | Dec 18, 2008 at 09:18 PM
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Love and blessings to you, Evelyn. :)
Posted by: Nick Smith | Dec 24, 2008 at 03:38 AM
If it's not too late, I would love to have a sprig of your poetry for my own name.
Welcome back, Evelyn! I have missed your musings a great deal.
Hoping your holidays are peaceful abd pleasant!
Becky
Posted by: Becky | Dec 27, 2008 at 07:27 AM
Oops! That should have been "peaceful and pleasant"...
Posted by: Becky | Dec 27, 2008 at 07:28 AM
the word 'Reverberates"(must be plural) gives off this wonderful ineffable feeling in the center of my chest...
Thank you once again for your sweet poems! :)
Posted by: Briana Franco | Jan 01, 2009 at 10:02 PM