Post Script.

You should know that I also received three more cards this week!
One from New Zealand, and two from Tennessee!

Poem 2 is free verse,
poem 3 is an ode based around a Keats
and poem four is so far a sonnet

Stay Tuned Loved OneS!
-A

Post Card One - Poem!

So for the first postcard it was decided that a long poem was necessary so I wrote a sestina... keep in mind that it is my first poem since my writer's block... and partially still in writer's block.

For those that don't know a Sestina is a poem that has 7 stanza. The first six each have six lines and each of the lines ends with a specific word. As the poem moves on the last words rotate until every word has been at the end of every line. From here in the last stanza the first two are used in the first line, the second two in the next, and the last two in the third. You will understand my wording better when you read the poem. I pulled my six words from the postcard itself: diner, celebration(s), self, birthday(s), question(s), coffee. These words can be in any tense and singular or plural.

This one is entitled: New Hampshire Nights
(which is a play on Never Winter Nights for those nerds out there like me =] )

Sitting in a small American no name late night diner
with thoughts of a plethora of celebrations
ones that signify the magic of yourself
and events to revolve around birthdays
all of which, in myself, spark questions
that swirl amongst my cold dreads of coffee

Those dreads are there for all celebrations
even those that remind you to love yourself
they are present even for the birthdays
even those that spark the questions
of whether or not you should leave it as coffee
no parties but instead just an empty diner

But whether you are with others or by your self
even the oldest celebrated birthdays
shouldn't have a limit or be questioned
these feats of age shouldn't just be left to coffee
unless that is your heart - but why settle for a diner
when you could be surrounded by love and celebration

these days the best ones are the oldest birthdays
as you begin to answer life's greatest questions
through the answers swirling in all of that drunk coffee
or odd flavors from those lonesome diners
either way the night should be a celebration
one which, at any age, makes you again love your self

There is no real question
towards which age you just shut up and drink coffee
no age where your only excitement is a diner
everyday for any age should be a celebration
no matter what age you should always be true to yourself
and celebrate in any style all of your birthdays

of course if you prefer the silent dreads of coffee
or the calm of a late night diner
to the real loving excitement of celebrations
then stick with it and be true to your self
but be happy with any age birthday
for you have made it through another year without question

so even if a diner is your idea of a real celebration
be happy with yourself and your next milestone or not birthday
because even if you question it, you're always love by more than the dreads of daily coffee

-Fin
Completed End of May.
Edited Today June 29

There it is! Woot... =)
I have the second and third done too but need time to edit.

Best Wishes (Airplanes or otherwise)
-A

New Postcards have arrived~

Postcards 2 and 3 and 4 have arrived...
well the second and third and fourth ones to arrive have arrived.

One was sent in locally from one of the postcards that I handed out to a friend from work
See his handy work here:





And the other two came in mysteriously.... hand made from home not a part of my jazz!
Stoked for these two.

Here is one with a part of a note of some sort...


And the back:



And here is the other with CLUE!



Clue came in second, the piece of a note came in third, and BC in fourth.
So we are well on our way through the madness and I have completed the Sestina for postcard 1
Congratulations we are off to a great start!
Now I just need to write more.

(June 21: Pictures Up!)