Tag: ode

• A Dance Party Yoga, before Yoga, and a Sky Gifted After

  

  I accidentally lost my birthday dance video for literary host Miss May’s birthday, so we did a redo, such fun, and shuffle On I ask May to pick a song or two or three or four…this shows the first one, and on the way out to yoga class tonight, the sky is like this, like…

  03/09/2023 7:47 pm

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• “Pride”

  I wrote this poem using the text of Pride and Prejudice posted on December 16, 2022, Jane Austen’s birthday. A “collage poem” with some lines from the text and my own words. “Pride” by Jade Nicole Beals Giving over? Giving up? I’ll never be sensible to the extreme. Surpass the rest? Like a thrill, not…

  12/16/2022 6:44 am

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• think of how

  rinse my face with cool almond milk think of how I’ve been thinking you are so pretty

  11/16/2022 1:21 pm

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• “#2”

  With you, there is another world layered over this one. It’s so translucent and wondrously original, I’ve said. You ask if there is quality glass shielding all this. There is, I reply, but it feels like the edges are useless… —Jade

  05/25/2022 8:44 am

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• A Letter to My Missing Sunglasses

  Dear Sunglasses I Lost (Maybe 6 Months Ago), Where did you go? I last saw you near my home—I think I’d put you down by the forest and forgot you there, but I can’t be too sure. The only animal I could think of might’ve taken you was a fox…I’ve never seen a fox, with…

  04/24/2022 7:18 pm

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• Sweetly Had You Come to Meet Me in the Night?

  May 31, 2021 Last night I read the many handwritten poems I’d translated, and then again, the latest poem of my own that I had written during My Full Moon Party for the Flower Moon and had not remembered ’til then how I’d concluded it, these days of having been pulled into a poetry cove…

  05/31/2021 3:32 pm

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