Poetry 2017: February 2017

Love Padlock tree in Moscow.

As we approach Valentine's Day and look for love poems. They are all around and do not have to be written to a person! I encourage you to read a lot to help as you begin to write your own.

We have read in Poem Crazy about using images to encourage inspiration. I have put several images which may help to inspire you, or I encourage you to find your own. You will want to print the image and attach it to your journal with your practice work. Really look for something that creates a strong emotion within you and use that as your muse for this poem. After playing around in your journal create a final poem to post on your blog.

Be sure to include the image in your blog with the poem it helped to inspire. Create your love or anti-love poem; share it with us in class or not; post it on your blog.☺

All over Europe there are love padlocks,
they started appearing in the early 2000s;
no one is sure who started each one.
There is one in Rome where the ritual of
affixing love padlocks on the bridge
Ponte Milvio is attributed to the book,
I Want You by Federico Moccia.
I think is a beautiful sentimental tradition.

In Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love

Graffiti artist Bansky has done several wonderful pieces

these are few with some romantic notions

Jenny Holzer has created art with the power of words...she takes what she calls truisms and makes them art. The piece below was a xenon she did in Berlin.

Click here to see more of the images from project love letter

I love this in the fountain in Paris

This is the meeting place by Paul Day
at St. Pancras Railway, in London; there
are some great statues here.

Of course there is Romeo and Juliet in Central Park.

El Beso is in Lima, Peru

This set pictures is from Emily Campbell's Love Ties, it is absolutely genius the words are all about Hanley Park in Stoke on Trent. She created these pieces "a reminder of distant memories, of words once spoken that can and often are so easily forgotten or torn apart. As it lives in the park a permanent and solid nature the reminder of these letter is not allowed to die, they can't be retracted or torn up. Love Ties serves to remind us that despite what we may have neglected, our words can and often do live on in others."