IMPERFECTosphere

It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others.
~Jeff Koons

Here are some of the places you can find posts about IMPERFECT:

500 Reasons to Explore Poetry Anthologies by Sylvia M. Vardell

An Interview with Tabatha Yeatts by Madelyn Rosenberg

IMPERFECT is part of Jama Rattigan's Nine Cool Things on a Tuesday

A middle school teacher's thoughts on IMPERFECT at Carol's Corner

Heidi Mordhorst on IMPERFECT

Robyn Hood Black shares about IMPERFECT sewing and more

Linda Mitchell talks about mistake making and IMPERFECT

Keri Collins Lewis on making IMPERFECT happen

Irene Latham interviews Tabatha

Ruth Hersey reviews IMPERFECT

Michelle Heidenrich Barnes shares her IMPERFECTions

Linda Mitchell

IMPERFECT poet Linda Mitchell shares an inspiring diamante in the anthology, and here she shares a mini poem about an invention that could have been dangerous for its inventor. Chemistry can involve a lot of surprises and volatile mistakes!

Earliest known written formula for gunpowder,
from the Wujing Zongyao of 1044 AD.

Mixed a little...
boom!
with a long wooden spoon --
charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter
in a bamboo tube --
boom!
sparkles in the sky...
boom!
don't know why...
a mistake?
or a really lucky guy!

The inventor in Linda's poem was lucky,
but we don't know what happened to this bird:
An expendable bird carrying
an incendiary receptacle round its neck.
From the Wujing Zongyao.

LINDA MITCHELL is a family girl and middle school librarian which makes her increasingly curious, geeky and creative on a daily basis. She writes in the edges of her life. You can catch her weekly Poetry Friday posts at A Word Edgewise https://awordedgewiselindamitchell.blogspot.com/.