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I Need You Need Me

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Wasn’t the celebration of Nikki Grimes and her works last Friday fabulous? I had a lovely time meandering through the posts all last weekend. I’m busy this Poetry Friday with our older daughter’s wedding activities. She’s getting married Saturday to a fabulous guy, and though […]

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Day 12: Soap Bubbles (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

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Happy Easter! Today got away from me, and I confess this is a poem I wrote years ago, but it sort of fits today’s #waterpoemproject, so I’m sharing it here:   Like most everybody else, I’m experiencing lots of upheavals lately! I have no huge National Poetry Month plans–just hoping to share an imagepoem here […]

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What Is a Wave? #WaterPoemProject

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I love water. It’s such a source of peace and calm and also motion and excitement. It’s just magic. Here’s today’s imagepoem for Laura Shovan’s #WaterPoemProject.   I’m not thinking too hard about making these “good” poems or following all the directions exactly. But starting off most days with about 30 minutes spent 1) writing […]

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Why Ms. Rob Is Awesome and Some Gratitude [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) If you stopped by for just the poem, here it is:>) I shared this (just the text) MORE THAN 10 YEARS AGO on my blog. Wow. Double-click on the image to see it larger and/or download a printable .pdf. I also have felt so much […]

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Camping in Fall and Lee Bennett Hopkins #PoetryFriday

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NOTE: Some readers are commenting and not seeing their own comments show up, even though they are showing up for me and others! I don’t know what’s causing this and am hopeful the WordPress or other platform gods will figure out how to solve the problem sometime soon. Meanwhile, please know that I AM seeing […]

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Sky Love Story – an Anagram Poem [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) We were scrambling for our form this month, and Tricia suggested anagram poems. She was inspired by Linda Baie’s lovely idea and poem here. As a theme, we picked weather or umbrellas or natural cycles. I wrote my poem mostly on a flight […]

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Spurious Sayings [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Here’s my final poem I wrote for the Madness Poetry competition created by Ed DeCaria–this is the one that kicked me from the tourney in the Final Four, where it was beaten by a fabulous Cinderella poem by Amelia Shearer. Our word was “spurious.”

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Together. Three. [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This week has been a rough week. I went to a celebration of life for the husband of a friend, and I’ve had a lot of stress both personally (moving in a couple of weeks!) and professionally. As I reread this week’s poem, I remembered […]

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A Thousand Nicknames for Snow [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This might be an odd choice for the end of June(!), but I’m continuing along with sharing the poems I wrote for the Madness Poetry competition created by Ed DeCaria. This was for Round 3, and my assigned word was “parlance.”

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Right Now [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Here’s the second of the poems I wrote for the Madness Poetry competition created by Ed DeCaria. My assigned word was “doling.”  The background image is of two people I love on a rock by the Mediterranean Sea. Despite all the horrors of the news, […]

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