Category: Pamela Sue Johnson

Poetry Friday, Week 2: My OLW Reveal

1/12/2023

Graphic design by Amber Fleek

Welcome to Poetry Friday. Susan at Chicken Spaghetti has hosting duties today.

In December my One Little Word came to me: CURIOUS.
It was right around when I met Pamela Sue Johnson, a local mixed media artist. I took her online class last Sunday to create an image with my OLW.
As I enter a new decade in sixteen days (or have I already entered it? A friend said when I turned 69, I entered my 7th decade) I have been thinking a lot of the importance of staying CURIOUS. Curious and asking the question: "What if" has me teaching an online class (I fell like I am facilitating it), submitting poems, and creating art.

©Art and poem by Jone Rush MacCulloch

Poetry Friday, Week 52: #smallpoemsdecember

12/30/2022

Graphic Design by Amber Fleek

The last Friday of 2022! Fifty-two weeks have flown by. This week Patricia at Reverie has hosting duties. she reflects on the year and has a beautiful blessing poem.

It's been a wild week for me in Oregon. Last Friday, we were covered in ice and about 1PM the pipe in the garage burst; it looked like a car wash! We were left with no water and no heat(water in the furnace shut it down but thankfully after it dried, all good). After one night of roughing it with space heaters (because of the ice wasn't safe to travel)we broke a mini-vacay at a local hotel, close to the house. By Monday our HOA had a crew out and repaired the pipes and we returned. Plus the universe wants me to take a break and not speak, so I've been gifted with laryngitis.
Today, I am sharing some of the #smallpoemsdecember. I admit, I am behind on writing.

ICYMI
Are you thinking of a One Little Word for 2023? I have been. Last Saturday, I met Pamela Sue Johnson, a local mixed media artist at The Procrastinator's Market (on of my favorite event in December) It turns out she's offering an online class to create an art piece with your2023 word.

I've signed up. I also bought a journal with this art as it has my word, flourish, from 2021.

Wonder was my 2022 word and it has served me well.

Here's to 2023 and all the adventures and wonder to be found. Happy New Year!

Poetry Friday, Week 51: Collaborating with Fernanda Valentino and A Link to The Poeming Pigeon Reading

12/22/2022

Graphic design by Amber Fleek

Welcome to a cold and breezy Poetry Friday. I hope you have a warm fire or something warm to drink as you enter this special community. And thanks to Irene at Live Your Poem for hosting us all this Friday before Christmas Eve and Day.

May this weekend be filled with magic and mystery for all who celebrate.

Besides collaborating with Linda Mitchell for Spark 53, I reached out to some new poetry friends. Fernanda Valentino shares a poem in What is a Friend edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. She volunteered to write a response to this photo I took in Glencoe, Scotland.

Fàilte
Heavy clouds cascading
Looming low, they skim
And brush these emerald valleys
With winter's thick, cold kiss.

Laden with burdens
The storm clouds linger, dense
Their damp and dewy fingers
Caress this desolate place.

Melancholy mornings
As sunlight struggles through
Each day another battle
For sunbeams, pale and new.

What is this lonely, far-flung place?
What does this small hut ponder?
What secrets does it hide?
What memories dwell inside?

Let the clouds become nostalgic
And the darkness dissipate
To reveal the face of Spring
Impart her warm embrace.

This isolation's fleeting
The time must surely come
When the soothing voice of Spring
Whispers “Welcome home”.

©Fernanda Valentino

Here is the link for the reading at The Poeming Pigeon.
Shawn and Robert, the editors, created a beautiful evening to celebrate art and poems.
I was so fortunate to be able to read (I am at about 25:00 minutes in ). I highly recommend to settle in and watch the whole event.

Are you thinking of a One Little Word for 2023? I have been. Last Saturday, I met Pamela Sue Johnson, a local mixed media artist at The Procrastinator's Market (on of my favorite event in December) It turns out she's offering an online class to create an art piece with your2023 word.

I've signed up. I also bought a journal with this art as it has my word, flourish, from 2021.

Poetry Friday, Week 2: My OLW Reveal

Poetry Friday, Week 52: #smallpoemsdecember

Poetry Friday, Week 51: Collaborating with Fernanda Valentino and A Link to The Poeming Pigeon Reading

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