Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

INTERNATIONAL HAND MADE POSTCARD EXHIBITION

Be part of our show! Anyone of any age can participate in our INTERNATIONAL HAND MADE POSTCARD EXHIBITION in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia early next year. The exhibition organised by Naluri Seni, Garden of Art in collaboration with ARTPROJECT2006.

Entries SHOULD BE HAND MADE POSTCARDS, 4 x 6 or 5 x 7 inches.

Media: Whatever you want (photographs, cartoons, collages, poems, visual poems, paintings/ watercolour, prints, digital images... ect. )

Deadline: 31 December 2005

No jury ,no fee, no return. Exhibition guaranteed.
Documentation to all. Please include name, snail mail address  (& web address if you have one).

Please submit to the address below:-

Curator
IHMP Exhibition
(NALURI SENI)
12, Kg. Rinching Tengah
43700 Beranang
Selangor
MALAYSIA

www.ihmpe.cjb.net          
www.naluriseni.cjb.net   
www.artproject2006.cjb.net

email: webmaster@artproject2006.cjb.net

Curator: Mr. Nizam & Mr. Suzlee

Makin’ the Myrtle Beach Sound Poem

Next Saturday at a leadership conference in Myrtle Beach, S.C. I get the delightful duty of providing "dinner entertainment." Though most of the 60-70 educators from around the U.S. and Canada in attendance will be familiar with the term "sound poetry," I'd be surprised if any of 'em have composed a sound poem. Time to change that. The directions follow:

Makin’ the Myrtle Beach Sound Poem

A sound poem foregrounds the sound of the words rather than their denotations and connotations. The meaning of a sound poem is carried through letters, phonemes, words, phrases, chanting, rubbing against each other, sound bypassing logic…

Make a sound poem using the words listed below. You may use one, two, ten, or one hundred, and you may use other words. Let the sound move you so that it moves us!

How to start? One possibility: choose a group of words (e.g. all one syllable words, or words starting with the same sound). Compose them in a pattern that pleases the ear. Repeat the pattern or start a new line with new words. Set up a contrasting pattern… Let your ear guide you!

surf   sand   driftwood   tide

current   riptide   sneaker wave   wave

crest   breakers   surge   Palmetto Palm

Pecan Tree    Pitcher Plant    Resurrection Fern

Sago Palm    Shrub Verbena   

swell   ripple   inlet   bay

strand   ocean   coast   estuary

lagoon   plankton   coral   Long-Billed Curlew

Marbled Godwit   Ruddy Turnstone   Common Snipe

Greater Shearwater   Magnificent Frigatebird   atoll

salt   spray   mollusks   sounding

sponge   mast   ship   wake

gull   shell   intracoastal   treasure

dune   sea star   beachcomber   mermaid necklaces

whelk   periwinkle   scallop   conch   cockle

coquina   kitten’s paws   sand dollar   seaweed

sea horse   lettered olive   Great blue heron

laughing gull   snowy egret    clapper rail

oystercatcher   eastern brown pelican   woodstorks

wood ducks   fledgling royal terns   Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs   Spotted Redshank   Solitary Sandpiper

Willet   Whimbrel   Double-Crested cormorant

Ring-billed gull   Gluacous gull   Sandwich tern

striped bass   swamp   marsh   scrub pine

Almond    Bald Cypress    Confederate Jasmine    Confederate Rose

Crape Myrtle    Fig Ivy    Flowering Dogwood Tree    Kudzu vine

"Glory Bush"    Live Oak    Mimosa    Muhly Grass

Sweetgrass    Sweet Gum Tree    Tea Olive    Tupelo Tree
Venus Flytrap

Rooster's

got it

upside down, crowing

squawking

at dusk

light thinning, falling

Surely

if it's

learned to stand

on

its head

it can learn

how

to tell

morning from night

San Juan Hay(na)ku

Empty

plastic bottle

of Montenegro Bay

rum

used condom

on one side

of

skinny San

Juan Valley Road

On

the other

paycheck stub for

Jayson

L. Schmit

ravenous construction worker