Poetry Pals - Week 27 - The Golden Shovel

Get your minds out of the gutter, it’s poetry I say. Read on to find out exactly what.

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Hello my wonderful poetry people,

(There was no real week 26 as we explored how the last 6 months had gone and plans for the future.)

So, this week, week 27, over at

Poetry Pals

we were looking at Golden Shovel poetry in a post by guest poet

Ellen

Clayton. I’d never heard of this before, and I did giggle a little. She showed us a poem inspired by Joni Mitchell which was wonderful.

Our task this week

To write a golden shovel poem.

• Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire.

• Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem.

• Keep the end words in order.

• Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines).

• The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words.

I took the opportunity to take a line from one of my talented daughter’s songs, and I wrestled with this poem for what felt like a long, long time. I cursed it, deleted it, rewrote it, cursed it again, and rolled around on the floor with many of the words trying to get them to fit where I wanted them. They were tricksy beasts. It almost had me beaten. I nearly gave up. But, I didn’t. Anyhoo, here it is, a golden shovel poem.

Also go listen! Now! Before you even read the poem.

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First Born - Golden Shovel - from Feel About You by Aislin Evans

Born of me, through me, you  
are my precious first born, who came 
so precipitously. Beautiful inside and out  
with skin ten sizes too big for a babe of 
your delightful petiteness. Nowhere
did they say the wrinkles would fill and 
warn that you would grow to be so amazing; you 
bloomed. Love filled us, our hearts opened 
wide, our souls filled up 
I received love so sharp it pierced my 
heart and my eyes,  
tormented me but opened me to 
your incredible sunlight.

(Lyric used - ‘you came out of nowhere and you opened up my eyes to sunlight’)

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