Inktober 2022 : Poetry

This year’s Inktober was based on poetry. Of the poets I have on my shelf, I created a wheel of names that I spun once a day. Upon determining a poet for the day, I would then select a poem by them to draw a picture for. Each drawing and quotation are in a 3×3 inch square.

1. “-then on the shore / Of the wide world I stand alone, and think / Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.” -John Keats

2. “To have the gag remov’d from one’s mouth! / To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am” -Walt Whitman

3. “Through the black amnesias of heaven. / Why am I given / These lamps, these planets / Falling like blessings,” -Sylvia Plath

4. “The fountains mingle with the river, / And the rivers with the ocean; / The winds of heaven mix for ever, / With a sweet emotion;” -Percy Bysshe Shelley

5. “there is nothing unfeminist about the girl who chooses the ball gown & the prince. / there is everything unfeminist about those who try to shame her for her choices.” -Amanda Lovelace

6. “When I am dead, and doctors know not why, / And my friends’ curiosity / Will have me cut up to survey each part, / When they shall find your picture in my heart,” -John Donne

7. “I took you back to my place / Sewed up your wound / I searched for your heart / Was nowhere to be found” -Till Lindemann

8. “But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” -W.B. Yeats

9. “There is something moon-soaked / and dawn-flavoured about her. / Something kissed by the wild / and loved by lightning.” -Nikita Gill

10. “Cold are the crabs that crawl on yonder hills, / Colder the cucumbers that grow beneath, / And colder still the brazen chops that wreathe / The tedious gloom of philosophical pills!” -Edward Lear

11. “I stood by the unvintageable sea / Till the wet waves drenched face and hair with spray, / The long red fires of the dying day / Burned in the west;” -Oscar Wilde

12. “Make me a picture of the sun – So I can hang it in my room – And make believe I’m getting warm / When others call it “Day”!” -Emily Dickinson

13. “He stood upon the bridge alone / And Fire and Shadow both defied ; / his staff was broken on the stone, / in Khazad-dûm his wisdom died.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

14. “ ‘O dreary life,’ we cry, ‘O dreary life!’ / And still the generations of the birds / Sing through our sighing, and the flock and herds / Serenely live while we are keeping strife” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

15. “Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking / Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- / What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore / Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”” -Edgar Allan Poe

16. “Better to hold the sparkling grape, / Than nurse the earth-worm’s slimy brood; / And circle in the goblet’s shape / The drink of Gods, than reptiles’ food.” -Lord Byron

17. “A gem that glitters while it lives, / And no forewarning gives; / But, at the touch of wrong, without a strife / Slips in a moment out of life.” -William Wordsworth

18. “They dine on news of human blood’ / They sup on the groans of the dying and dead, / And supperless never will go to bed;” -Percy Bysshe Shelley

19. “The visionary Arches are not there, / Nor the green Islands, nor the shining Sea; / Yet sacred is to me this Mountain’s head, / Whence I have risen, uplifted on the breeze / Of harmony, above all earthly care.” -William Wordsworth

20. “The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea / In a beautiful pea-green boat, / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five-pound note.” -Edward Lear

21. “If I could bleed, or sleep!- / If my mouth could marry a hurt like that! / Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule, / Dulling and stilling. / But colourless. Colourless.” -Sylvia Plath

22. “Dance through the hedges till the early rose, / (That sweet repentance of the thorny briar!) / Burst from its sheathèd emerald and disclose / The little quivering disk of golden fire” -Oscar Wilde

23. “There’s an emptiness inside her / And she’d do anything to fill it in / But all the colours mix together / To grey” -Dave Matthews Band

24. “Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, / Straight and swift to my wounded I go, / Where they lie on the ground after the battle brought in, / Where their priceless blood reddens the grass the ground,” -Walt Whitman

25. “It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, / In the misty mid region of Weir- / It was down by the dark tarn of Auber, / In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.” -Edgar Allan Poe

26. “Turn, thou ghost, that way, and let me turn this, / And let ourselves benight our happiest day. / We ask none leave to love; nor will we owe / Any so cheap a death as saying, ‘Go;’” -John Donne

27. “Though leaves are many, the root is one; / Through all the lying days of my youth / I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; / Now I may wither into the truth.” -WB Yeats

28. “Deep-hearted man, express / Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death: – / Most like a monumental statue set / In everlasting watch and moveless woe,” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

29. “SHE walks in Beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies; / And all that’s best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes” -Lord Byron

30. “When steeped in dew rich to intoxication. / Ah! I will taste that dew, for me ‘tis meet, / And when the moon her pallid face discloses, / I’ll gather some by spells, and incantation.” -John Keats

31. “Because I could not stop for Death- / He kindly stopped for me- / The Carriage held but just Ourselves- / And Immortality.” -Emily Dickinson

Complete Poet/Poem List:

John Keats : When I have fears that I may cease to be
Walt Whitman : One Hour To Madness And Joy
Sylvia Plath : The Night Dances
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Love’s Philosophy
Amanda Lovelace : untitled from break your glass slippers
John Donne : The Damp
Till Lindemann : No Heart
WB Yeats : He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Nikita Gill : The Moon Goddess
Edward Lear : Cold are the Crabs
Oscar Wilde : Vita Nuova
Emily Dickinson : untitled
Tolkien : Frodo’s Lament for Gandalf
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Patience Taught by Nature)
Edgar Allan Poe : The Raven
Lord Byron : Part 3 of Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull
William Wordsworth : To H.C.
Percy Bysshe Shelley : The Devil’s Walk
William Wordsworth : The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade
Edward Lear : The Owl and the Pussy-cat
Sylvia Plath : Poppies in July
Oscar Wilde : Humanitid
Dave Matthews Band : Grey Street
Walt Whitman : The Wound-Dresser, section 2
Edgar Allan Poe : Ulalume
John Donne : The Extirpation
WB Yeats : The Coming of Wisdom with Time
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Grief
Lord Byron : She Walks in Beauty, part 1
John Keats : To-
Emily Dickinson : untitled

5 Comments

Tammy says:

November 2, 2022 at 7:28 pm

Such amazing eye for detail. I love the creativity of this challenge. Thank you of doing the final one. It is one of my favourites by her. 💜
Simon says:

November 2, 2022 at 9:01 pm

Beautiful. Well done.
Baba says:

November 3, 2022 at 3:29 pm

Percy Bysshe Shelley/ Love’s Philiosophy
Amanda Lovelace/ Untitled from break your glass slippers
Oscar Wilde/Vitae Nuova
Emily Dickinson/Untitled
Oscar Wilde/Humantid
Beautiful!!!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
1. Miranda says:
  
  November 3, 2022 at 8:47 pm
  
  Thank you! 💜
JLB says:

November 4, 2022 at 9:34 am

very well done!!

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