This month, my poetry sisters and I are writing poems about bells, whatever that means to each of us. I’m pretty sure that if you click through to read everyone else’s poems, you will see that we all scattered in different directions, using “bells” as a jumping-off point.
I considered writing one about bells in Christmas carols, then remembered that I’d already done that in a poem entitled A Head Full of Bells, which I share below:
Despite four pages of notes and false starts and various ideas, I kept coming back to the idea of swapping a bell for something else in the scene with the three witches (or “weird/weyward sisters”) in Macbeth. Which is how it came to pass that I wrote a very short poem indeed.
You can find the poems by my poetry sisters on their sites by clicking their names, below.
Andi Sibley
Liz Garton Scanlon
If you’d like to write to our theme for next month, we are going with “poetry inspired by something overheard.” Our friend Susan Thomsen at Chicken Spaghetti has done several of these as a form of “found poem,” and it seemed like a fun challenge. Here's a link to one of Susan’s poems.
This week’s Poetry Friday host is Carol at Carol’s Corner.