CCEE Challenge -- CCEE1403

Sabrina, the CCEE Stampers hostess for January, has given us a poem to use as our inspiration.

Her challenge is to make a card inspired by any of the images in the poem - mossy window sills, a flight of birds, the moon, trees, maple leaf, grasses in the wind...any other picture you take from the poem.

Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish 

A poem should be palpable and mute

As a globed fruit,

Dumb

As old medallions to the thumb,

Silent as the sleeve-worn stone

Of casement ledges where the moss has grown—

A poem should be wordless

As the flight of birds.

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A poem should be motionless in time

As the moon climbs,

Leaving, as the moon releases

Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,

Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,

Memory by memory the mind—

A poem should be motionless in time

As the moon climbs.

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A poem should be equal to:

Not true.

For all the history of grief

An empty doorway and a maple leaf.

For love

The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea—

A poem should not mean

But be.

Be sure to visit the CCEE Stampers Blog to see the various ways in which the DT members were inspired by this poem.  We would love for you to play along with us.  The team blog will have details on how you can share your creations with us.