One year ago today, I wrote a poem about life giving water. We need nurturing whether with water or acceptance. My poem is below.
May 19th 2024
Life giving water
It pours on trees, bushes and grass.
Filling ponds and rivers with healing.
Squirrels and deer lap up it’s strength.
I hope for a portion of the gift.
This life giving water..
This poem was sent to Lynda in our poetry postcard exchange last May. With the weather yesterday, it seems appropriate for the blog. We are working on six sections of the book, selecting poems for each section. Lynda just sent me the people and places section. I am selecting my poems today. The harder work for a book is what to choose and what to keep for another project. Lynda produced an outline and I suggested some minor changes. We each selected three of the section to be responsible for. From over 336 poems I will select 20 to 24 poems for each section. That will be 120 to 130 total poems, Lynda will do the same. We go through each selection to check for spelling, punctuation and font. Then we send the section to each other.
Currently we are sending our poems to on line and printed magazines to have published. We are hoping to have at least 30 to 60 poems published this year. This is a way we can connect with publishers and make interest in our work. When the book is completed, we will have a group of people to contact about the work.
I will keep you posted on our progress. I will end with a teaser from our book.
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Handsome an acrostic poem
“Howdy Handsome.”
A wagging tail greeting.
“Nice dog.”
“Don’t know why he likes you.”
“Strangers are greeted with growls.”
“Only you he likes.”
“Maybe it’s my quiet voice.”
“Easy when you are holding a biscuit.”
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