Poetry Friday, Week 10: Celebrating Twenty Years

Karen at Karen Edmisten* is hosting Poetry Friday this week.  She wrote a poem in the style of U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze as suggested by the Poetry Peeps.
This will be something I will try later this month.

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Happy Blog Anniversary to Me

In about 2006, I started a blog. Before Solace in Nature, I had a blog on libblog.net and that is now longer viable. I was excited to showcase the library happenings in that blog. It let to me have a personal blog at blogspot. I ran out of space for photos, moved to Wordpress until 2020 until I moved to Weebly. And during Wordpress days, I had Check It Out for all the library happenings.

I was looking at stats and roughly I have 0ver 2500 posts.  I am terrible at stats and it's hard to comprehend that I write that much.

The Poetry Friday Community is a safe haven for me.  I have met so many people through connecting with poetry  each week. Thank you for always stopping by.

As a thank you, drop a comment. I'll put your name in a winner generator app and select someone to receive a copy of Tilt  when it publishes and a small heart from my "Love, Always, 2026" project.

A tiny update on Tilt. I gave corrections to the book designer on stanza and line spacing alone with some minor editing. We have chatted about font choices and formatting. It's fascinating. I will need to go through again for any errors. It's one of my fears about getting the book into the world.  I want it to be error free.

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What I Found Digging Around the Archives

I was looking through the old blog posts.  I totally forgot that I was a guest blogger at Author Amok
As Spring is approaching and really we're in meteorological spring now, it's the perfect poem.
Spring
By Jone MacCulloch

Our time will come again,
say the emerging daffodils
in the dazzle of the sun
as pink calypso tulips bloom.

Say the emerging daffodils:
Our time is brief
as pink calypso tulips bloom
during spring's first rain.

Our time is brief,
sing the robins
during spring's first rain
while worms wriggle in the grass.

Sing the robins,
We'll be back
while worms wriggle in the grass
nectar awaits the first arrival of bees.

We'll be back 
in the dazzle of the sun
nectar awaits the first arrival of bees.
Our time will come.

© 2014 Jone Rush MacCulloch 

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Save the Date

The next Poetry Pop-Up Writing Salon will be on Saturday, April 11, 2026.  It will be at 11 AM EST.
It's going to be a busy weekend for me as I am hosting on Friday, April 10.  Perfect way to celebrity National Poetry Month.