It has been fourteen months since I began this blog. It seems like a suitably odd time to look back and take stock. Below are links to fourteen poems written during this period that received a lot of response from readers or that I particularly like myself. There is one for each month. I hope you enjoy them.
Thanks for reading, following, and providing your feedback to me. We all have packed schedules and it means a great deal to me that you take some time from yours for this little blog.
April: Three haiku from a rain forest
May: Rainy drive
June: Thoughts on visiting my grandfather’s grave
July: Loving the storms that sway her
August: End of season
September: Daily practice
October: One
November: Book of changes, i
December: Another poem about a rose
January: On reading “Hearing a Flute on a Spring Night …”
February: Jacksonville, Illinois
March: Twin waters
April: Haunted
May: Geraniums (Had to end with this one, as I purchased my annual geraniums for the front porch this afternoon and got a good whiff of that sharp aroma. Can’t someone breed a good-smelling geranium?!)
Poems from in between 
5 responses to “Fourteen months”
I had the same feeling when I started my blog in 2008. Also, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do and the site went through many incarnations before I decided to focus on poetry, which I love and which lends itself well to blogging which seems to love short better than long.
I agree about community. If not for blogging, it is difficult to find others whose minds and hearts are so focused on poetry and other arts. What a blessing and what a blessing all the people are.
Wishing you all the pleasures to be had from writing and blogging. Thanks for sharing your work and for you visits and “likes.” Poem on …
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Thanks, Jamie, for the kind and encouraging words. I have a long way to go to catch up with you!! Thanks for your good work to push me forward!
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Congratulations and what a wonderful little trip down memory lane. How the time and poems fly 😉 Can’t wait to see the book!!
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Getting to know you has been such a high point. Thanks for all your support and letting me in on your poetic life!!
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And ditto!! 🙂
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