I wasn’t sure I’d get a post up for Poetry Friday this week. I leave on Sunday with my eldest son, aged 28, for a trip to California! We are going to visit Redwoods National Park! I am excited! My husband and pets will be staying home to work on our garage-building project – he’s doing such a great job building the retaining wall, but I admit I am feeling a little guilty about going away while he’s home working.
But I must move forward. Tomorrow will be spent running last-minute errands to get ready to go. This week has been spent wrapping up some jewelry projects and getting the last of my plants in the ground (for now).
June has been a wonderful month! We’ve visited a state park and I am still going through my photos from Copper Falls. I was also named a top writer in Poetry on Medium for my poem Debris that I posted to Poetry Friday a couple of weeks ago. In addition, I had two posts chosen for a “boost” on Medium, which tremendously helps with visibility!
I hope to offer some new travel posts on our California adventure later this month and into July.
Plus, I’ll be making an announcement about a project I want to pursue that might involve some of you! Dare I ask? Might some of you be ready for a call for submissions??? I need to work out some details but…my post today is a clue as to what might be coming!
So let’s get to it…
Here is my Debris poem superimposed on the photo of the cabin we tore down.
and here’s the guy I met in the woods.
I find I am enjoying setting my own words to my own photography. Ekphrasitc poetry has always interested me but never more than now.
I must be in a creative space because once again I am rising from bed to write words down for poem as they come to me in my semi-sleepy or just awakened state. Such as the case with a haiku earlier this week. (I am not sharing the haiku at this time.)
If you’d like to catch up with me on Medium, here are two of my recent posts on that platform:
Summer is here! Make sure you take time to enjoy it!
Ciao!
Poetry Friday is hosted this week by Michelle Kogan at Moreart4all. Thanks for hosting Michelle!
The Apples in My Orchard 
Wow! You’ve hit your writing stride. Congrats! I love that ramshackle falling down cottage in the woods. There’s so much to imagine there. Your questions in the poem keep me wondering. A nice touch.
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Carol, I love the way you used that debris and constructed a poem. Wonderful. What a fun one about the jack-in-the-pulpit, too. The line “I hardly saw you standing there” made me chuckle. Those show-off ferns! I am always talking to the birds I see on my walks; maybe I’ll write about them.
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Love that “shrouded eye”, Carol, & also before, love the Debris poem. Happy travels with your son. That retaining wall looks very good!
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Carol, Congratulations! Your Debris poem is worthy of being the top writer in Poetry on Medium label. I love the photo also. The monarch butterfly post on medium is filled with so much information and the photos of the butterflies are gorgeous. Well Done! I look forward to your announcement.
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Gosh I loved Debris when I read it the first time, Carol. I’m focusing on ekphrastic poems this summer too… I find it draws me into the detail and I notice “Jacks” much more when I wander with camera ready. Enjoy the Redwoods! I’m a CA girl and grew up with a proprietary sense of these great gifts.
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Great voice in your Jack-in-the-pulpit poem and image too, and Congrats on your publications Carol!
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Thank you Michelle! I apologize about my very delayed reply! Hope your summer is going well!
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