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Poetry Friday July 8, 2022: Haiku Journal Sneak Peek
Happy Poetry Friday! This week’s host is Jan at Book Seed Studio. Hop on over there for the roundup. Haiku Journal Sneak Peek My goal this year is to write a haiku every weekday. I’ve been experimenting with macrophotography. So I combined my daily haiku with…
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Poetry Friday June 24, 2022: My Deep Dive into Plath Poetry
This week’s Poetry Friday host is Reading to the Core. Hop on over there for the roundup. Deep Dive into Plath Poetry I mentioned the fact that I was reading Sylvia Plath’s poems when I wrote about the “Spring Break of Sylvia Plath,” but I wanted to add…
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Poetry Friday June 17, 2022: 5 for 30
This week Michelle Kogan is hosting Poetry Friday. Hop over there for the roundup. 5 for 30 I’m a big fan of learning about yourself and how you write best. I’ve taken a few classes about using Clifton StrengthsFinders for Writers at Becca Syme’s Write Better Faster…
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Poetry Friday June 10, 2022: The Spring Break of Sylvia Plath
Today’s Poetry Friday host is Buffy Silverman. Check out the roundup there. Spring Break of Sylvia Plath + What I’m Reading I had big dreams for Spring Break 2022. I knew I couldn’t go out of town because of my daughter’s spring sports schedule. So I decided to…
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Poetry Friday May 27, 2022
Today’s Poetry Friday roundup is at my friend Linda’s blog! It’s been a tough couple of weeks. There is some medical stuff happening with our extended family. An old friend (not old–he was my age–but from long ago) died this week unexpectedly. And my oldest is graduating from high…
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Poetry Friday May 20, 2022: Bat Walk
The Poetry Friday roundup is with Carmela at Teaching Authors. A few weeks ago, I attended a bat walk at a local park. This is honestly my busiest season. Things are busy with my writing life. Things are busy with my job. And my teen is keeping…
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Poetry Friday May 13, 2022: Community
This week’s host for Poetry Friday is Rose Capelli. Hop over to her blog to see the Poetry Friday roundup. More on Rose (and some other poetic friends) below. Community When I picked out my words for the year, I chose NATURE AND NURTURE. It was…
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Poetry Friday: May 6, 2022
Jama is our host for Poetry Friday this week. Hop on over there to see this week’s post. Haiku of the Week salamander eggs jellied and gelled together in the vernal pond –Photo and haiku by Marcie Flinchum Atkins Progressive Poem For Poetry Month in April, I joined the…
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Poetry Friday: April 29
This week’s Poetry Friday host is Jone Rush MacCulloch. Hop on over to Jone’s blog to see the roundup. Haiku of the Week warmth of evening sun sweetgum pod’s mouth cracks open gulps spring’s air –Photo and Haiku by Marcie Flinchum Atkins What I’m Reading The Poetry Home…
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Progressive Poem 2022
I’m the next person in the Progressive Poem journey this month. Each day someone else adds a line to the poem. This year’s poem consists of lines from other books and songs. I had another line picked out, and then I did some later reading yesterday and changed my…