Hello, Poetry Friday friends! I hope this finds you well, as I missed the round-up last week.

I’ve been feverishly working on a new website, hoping to completely transition off WordPress by the end of June. We’ll see. There are a few things that I am not sure about as far as how they’ll work, and I think the best way is to just publish the site so I can see firsthand what will happen with posts and comments.

Part of the reason it’ll take a long time to transfer over is that my archive of blog articles here on The Apples in My Orchard reaches a count of over 2,100. I’ve started to delete some of the non-essential ones, drafts that didn’t get published, and some of my Silent Sunday posts, but transferring them all over will be impossible. Yet, I don’t want to lose those pieces.

I ask that you visit my new website and check out all the tabs on the menu that runs across the top of the page. I was thrilled that this was easy to set up and that now, when you click a topic on the menu, the site takes you there without any trouble. This has been a long-standing problem for my WordPress site, and I’ve run out of patience in trying to fix it.

As I said, we’ll see.

Here is the new site: https://caroljlabuzzetta.com/ Please sign up with your email to receive a newsletter or specials from my website. Thank you.

It is meant to showcase the books I’ve compiled, authored, and published. Most of you know that I’m an Indie Publisher as well as an Indie Author. My small, one-woman publishing house is called Northern Loon Press.

I sat down this morning and counted all the haiku I wrote this month – there were over twenty, plus some other free verse poems. Tonight, I wrote this:

Spring Peepers

It’s raining, the drops filling the pond
At the end of the road
Where the heron stood
Last week

Spring peepers arrived days after the 
Heron’s visit, singing in unison 	
Since

Day, night, night, day,
The singing waxes and wanes but is 
Never replaced by complete
Silence

The Heron has not returned
	You’d think he’d want 
An easy meal

The peepers keep singing 
Right through the rain	
Calling a mate…
It’s time

Spring is here.

© Draft, Carol Labuzzetta, 2026

I also finished a book about writing Haiku, by Bruce Ross. I’ll be reviewing that in the coming month. It is a worthwhile read and will reside on my reference shelf.

Take care and be well,

Carol