 Welcome to the last Poetry Friday of 2025. Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect. She's sharing a poetry sister's challenge of writing on the theme of peace, light, or hope. To read the poem inspired by thinking of her mom, head there. In December for my Daily Haiku practice, I tried to incorporate those themes. Dec. 3 day begins in the bird's song-- quiet hope all aglow Jone Rush MacCulloch, 2025 Dec. 9 atmospheric river rainy sheets inside— fire, books, peace Jone Rush MacCulloch, 2025 Dec. 14 sandy hook never forgotten lives cut short light a candle write a poem Jone Rush MacCulloch, 2025  My 2025 OLW was DREAM. It served me well. I dreamt about possibilities and acted on them. One significant action was to abandon pursuing a Highlights Foundation Scholarship to instead, hire, Cordelia Jensen to coach and provide feedback on my almost ready to publish novel in verse. I had taken classes from her via Highlights in the past. Her feedback enabled me to get to the stage I'm at currently; working through copy edits. Dream had me pursuing contests and submissions along with showing my photography and art in two places this year. It's been a fabulous word. Next week, I will reveal my 2026 OLW which honestly started tagging along with DREAM about five months ago. Winter Poetry Pop-Up Salon: January 10, 2026 11AM-12 PM ESTCome and let's write together in community on Saturday, January 10. Sign up HERE.
Michelle at MoreArt4All is hosting Poetry Friday today. She has a rich post reflecting on the Yoko Ono exhibit she recently saw. Her golden shovel based on All we are saying is give peace a chance is a hopeful and soothing balm.  Sunday is winter solstice. The photo is from December 21, 2023. Last year, I wasn't lucky to have a spectacular sunrise. I'm not sure if I will this year as we are having rain and atmospheric rivers one by one. Today, I woke thinking about a solstice elfchen. winter shortest day time for rest until the light returns solstice Jone Rush MacCulloch, 2025  Sign Up to Receive a 2026 New Year Postcard
poetry postcards brings tiny new year wishes amid the bills © Jone Rush MacCulloch It's 14 days until 2026 begins! This means time to sign up for the poetry postcards. Also, as far as I can tell, this may be the TENTH year of hosting. Woohoo! Send five, send ten or send to all? In Japan, it’s called Nengajo, a Japanese custom of ushering in the new year. How It Works:
 © Graphic by Amber Fleek
Welcome to Poetry Friday! Linda at A Word Edgewise has hosting duties and is having fun her annual Christmas Mash-ups..
Last Thursday and Friday, I worked in a fourth grade room and taught the elfchen form. Using the poetry of Moe Phillips and Mary Cronin, we build a word bank. Below are their poems. I discovered that when you talk snow and winter in December, it's hard to not bring Christmas along in the mix. They also created art with a moon, trees, snow, and shadows plus a few snowmen that are now on display with their other art.
My goal for 2026 is to send out a monthly newsletter on my Substack, Deowriter: Musings to Spark the Spirit. I plan to talk about my upcoming middle grade novel that I am planning to publish independently in the spring of 2026. So if you haven't signed up, please consider doing so.
Sign Up to Receive a 2026 New Year Postcard
poetry postcards
brings tiny new year wishes amid the bills © Jone Rush MacCulloch It's 21 days until 2026 begins! This means time to sign up for the poetry postcards. Also, as far as I can tell, this may be the TENTH year of hosting. Woohoo! Send five, send ten or send to all? In Japan, it’s called Nengajo, a Japanese custom of ushering in the new year. How It Works:
|
AuthorAll photos and poems in these blog posts are copyrighted to Jone Rush MacCulloch 2006- Present. Please do not copy, reprint or reproduce without written permission from me. 
Categories
All
Archives
February 2026
|
