The Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry has had one successful viewing and fundraising event, our Honey Mead Poetry Day, and now we are having another, a ROMP Tellabration. Tellabration is an international storytelling event that takes place on the Saturday before Thanksgiving or somewhere roundabout there. People and organizations across the world plan events and share stories in honor of . . . stories! Continue reading “ROMP Tellabration–This Saturday!!”
Tag: Oklahoma
Dancers at the Caravan Cattle Co., Tulsa OK
Both are barely 5’6, though his hat
Adds 6 inches to his height. They are slender,
His buckle like a giant pull tab
On a paper doll, her hair the color of soured milk.
They dance effortlessly, slowly with short steps,
Without improvisation or flourish. Continue reading “Dancers at the Caravan Cattle Co., Tulsa OK”
Honey Poetry on Blocks
It’s not often a person gets to spend the day sharing poetry with people. So, yesterday, September 1, 2012, was a great day for me. It was the Perkins Honey Mead Poetry Day, a fundraiser for the museum to help me get it complete and officially open. For a $10 donation, visitors got some mead (which I made last year from the honey harvest) and a honey bear from this year’s harvest. . . .plus, the first experience of the 1/3rd complete museum.
Perkins Honey Mead Poetry Day Slideshow Continue reading “Honey Poetry on Blocks”
Honey, Mead & Poetry Day!
Poets.org put us on its site. Looking forward to a fun day . . . mead, honey, snacks, song, swimming, talking . . . and all wrapped around by poetry. We need yours . . . poetry that is. Yee haw!
DETAILS:
Honey! Poetry! Museum Field Guide!
On September 1, we are having a gathering for people wanting to sample the mead I made last year from the honey harvest. I am selling tickets that will get each person (of age!) a glass of mead, a honey bear of just harvested honey (we did it last weekend, Aug. 19), and a snack. The proceeds will go to the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry. Continue reading “Honey! Poetry! Museum Field Guide!”
The World You Outgrew
At 5:17, the coyotes end their run,
their cries circling in on each other,
a haunting cyclone of sound you never forget.
Sometimes the world you outgrew
reclaims you, surrounding you in its ever-ness.
Keep coming.
Keep coming closer.
If you have left anything behind,
you don’t need it.
If the darkness threatens to drown you,
remember what is there.
–Shaun Perkins
Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry 