The pocket poetry case in the museum is full, with pocket poems overflowing into the shelves below it. So I am going to move some of them. I took some pictures first to share here. Continue reading “Ode to a Kleenex and Other Pocket Poems”
Author: ROMPoetry
The Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry is an interactive museum where the common person and poetry meld. ROMP is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization.
Happier Ignorant
I was sweeping in the museum today and noticed this post-it note folded up and sticking out the bottom of the Secret Box.
This wooden box is in the Secret Corner of the museum. A very comfortable chair sits in the corner. It is surrounded by poetry and secrets that people have made un-secrets. Continue reading “Happier Ignorant”
Radio Show about Poetry: Those Were the Days
I bought this book in a flea market because of the last page in it, a poem “To One Who Does Not Care For Poetry,” which I love. (Read it below) Of course, then I had to investigate who Tony Wons was–check out that snazzy photo of him! Continue reading “Radio Show about Poetry: Those Were the Days”
Heirophant
Teach what you want to learn, she says to me
And she walks away, for every reaction
There is for every branch on one side
Of the tree there is for every step
Forward there is for every shunning
Of the light there is for every turn
Of the page there is for every rock
Spiraling into the water there is
For every bird with a broken wing Continue reading “Heirophant”
Fair warning: Get your scary poem on!
Got a scary poem in you? Let it come out. The Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry is hosting a Scary Poem Contest that includes a reading of your poem at the Oct. 25 Dark & Scary event at the museum. Cash prizes for the top 3 winners!
Anyone can send in a poem, but winners must be present: We need to hear you tell us your poem around the campfire in the dark . . . where the sasquatch and coyote might be lurking. Continue reading “Fair warning: Get your scary poem on!”
The Bright Crest
You are the surf that rises
to the bright crest of the day,
the shell road at low tide
and the moon above the bay. Continue reading “The Bright Crest”
Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry 