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Poetry Friday, Week 4: A Haiku for My Wordless Wednesday

1/30/2025

Jan at bookseedstudio is hosting all the poetry goodness. I don't know about you but I am so glad for this poetry community.

I had quite the day yesterday (Wednesday, 29th) and I didn't post a Wordless Wednesday. I had intended and it didn't happen/ so I will combine the two.

Wordless Wednesday: Week 4

birthday dawn
branching out this year
dreams exist

©jone rush macculloch, 2025

Sunday Solace: Week 4

1/26/2025

Poetry Friday, Week 3: What a Week

1/23/2025

Happy Poetry Friday! Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference is hosting Poetry Friday. She has all sorts of goodness, especially the unveiling of her Brave Zine which you can read it online here. I feel lucky to have three poems in it.
It's been a week, hasn't it? My weekend was a poetry filled one. Starting on Friday with a Zoom meeting with Kim Stafford to kick out the #StaffordChallenge. Then
Saturday morning, I hosted a "Poetry for Persistence" for creatives. We had a chance to talk and write and share. It was wonderful to be in community with others. And I continued Saturday with another poetry project. Sunday was my third class with Joan Kwon Glass, an amazing poet who creates space for writing to fall out of you onto the page. Monday to avoid the television and to be in a sacred space, we drove to Wildwood.

morning drive
wildwood recreation
we follow
green glowy
lichen paths, reach the river
skip stones- we’ll persist

©jone rush macculloch, 7/365

SAVE THE DATE

We need more community! Join me on Saturday, April 5, 11 AM-1PM EST (feel free to come for all or part) to kick off National Poetry Month. Details soon!

Wordless Wednesday: Week 3

1/22/2025

Poetry Friday, Week 2: My OLW Appears This Week

1/16/2025

Welcome to Poetry Friday. Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect has hosting duties this Friday.
Two weeks ago, I shared my 2025 OLW: Dream.
Yesterday, at book club, I had a DOVE chocolate. It had a message: "Be the dream."
I've been working diligently and with focus to get my WIP finished this year. My goal to finish had been for last year. Sometimes you have to adjust goals. But I am feeling good about 2025.
I am participating in the #365picturetoday. Today is "journey". Perfect.

Last call for January 18, 2025
What: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Let's create or write poems for persistence, for presence during the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. Let's share our work in community.
If you are a writer, a poet, a slow stitcher, or artist, join us for a couple hours of creative community. 11-1 EST
If you can only join us for an hour, great. Join us.

Join here: Creating for Persistence.

Do You Have a Poem to Share?

I am looking for poems from poets to donate for use in my Texas Women's University Mid-Term Poetry Video project. Poems should be long enough for about a 1 minute video.
Please share your poem at 2025 TWU POEMS.

Wordless Wednesday: Week 2

1/15/2025

Sunday Solace: Week 2

1/12/2025

Poetry Friday: Week 1, Student Work-Winter Poetry

1/10/2025

Kat at Kats Whiskers has the Poetry Friday hosting duties and shares a poem about cats and dogs.

I returned to Mrs. Martin’s fourth graders I had the opportunity to teach winter poems and we created snowman art. I absolutely love how the snowman turned out. Their expressions! I modeled that they could tear the circle out instead of using scissors and they did. They used the remaining whit paper to create the snow.

I used four poems from The Dirigible Balloon:
Winter Word Warning by Lisa Roullard
The Day After the Snow Day by Theresa Gaughan
Winter Fairies by Moe Phillips (We also listened to this one)
Wintertime Fair by Mary Cronin

Students had copies of the poems and we underlined wintry words that we would like to see in our poems. I then challenged them to use at least one of their underlined words.
I put them into the PADLET. They are in Section 2. So scroll past Section I. By using the teacher and adding sections, I can maximize the allowed number of free Padlets.

Saturday, January 18, 2025

What: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Let's create or write poems for persistence, for presence during the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. Let's share our work in community.
If you are a writer, a poet, a slow stitcher, or artist, join us for a couple hours of creative community. 10-12 EST
If you can only join us for an hour, great. Join us.

Join here: Creating for Persistence.