Today was a poetry as therapy group thing and we read some poems the therapist seemed surprised I knew Christina Rossetti - I figured everyone knew about her! (we read A Green Cornfield btw)

and then we wrote a poem I've had this percolating in my head for awhile so it felt like cheating but I scrawled this out and shared it to the group. Who was mostly confused and I wanted to share it here. It's about ita. I know she changed her username but I always thought of it as !ita. I thought that was very fitting for her.

So here is the very rough draft. oh and !ita is read as "interbang ita" because that's how I would read it.

!ita
ita bang
ita moon

A force
gravity's pull
we are her satellites

ita bang
ita moon
!ita
a punch
a kick
sharp mind
cross swords - defend - prove your point
no strawmen here

ita moon
!ita
ita bang
electromagnetic field across the world
we find -each day- where she touched
who she touched
influence in surprising places
scope beyond realization

cornerstone
friend
touchstone
pink gingham
dragonfly
connisuer of fine men
Ting and curry

She was
she is
she will be

the internet is forever
our hearts are forever
b.org
odeck
krav
one generation -the next generation
grace & noah
matilda
emmett
other children touched in her gravity
pass down the stories
artist
baker
coder
fighter

!ita
ita bang
ita moon

Firefly legend
family
friend

fighter

She found peace

and we grapple with that still

So really really rough and probably people can point out mischaraterizations but it's something that's been in my head and I finally got a chance.

I didn't tell anyone the actual name of the website other than b.org I said I didn't want to reveal that. I didn't say the names when I read it out. Don't want anyone to feel I violated privacy.

God, I'm bawling like a baby at work, but it's after hours, so just about everyone is gone. If you would, it would be great if you posted that in the ita thread; not everyone checks Great White and that fucking deserves to be shared with the community. It's fierce and beautiful, just like ita. You rock, askye.

WHAT SAIL SAID. ::sniffle::

This is lovely, askye. Thank you for bringing it out into the world.

That's amazing and powerful and, as Sail said, fierce, askye. Thank you for sharing it. I agree, it needs to go in ita's thread.

I'm really glad you guys like it. I feel like it needs a little polish but not much there was so much I wanted to capture but mostly ita through my own lens.

Hate to follow that, but here are my thoughts about "flag" Summer 1984

I was almost eleven, and not quite sure why I was so intrigued by the cover on the album.I knew it wasn’t just the stars and stripes. The driving beats thrilled me more than Thriller and were more fun than Girls Want to Have Fun(although I always turned that one up and sang along) I couldn’t even picture the shuttered factories and quieted smokestacks, but somehow Bruce made me care anyway.I could feel his music with my body and not just from the tight worn jeans on the cover.

Another good one, erika.

This week's prompt is two people, one chair.

A little different, I know, but it can be interpreted a million different ways.

That's lovely, askye.

Thanks everyone, I hoped it would be well received.

erika that's really great.