Bio for 2024
Melva Sue Priddy has participated in LexPoMo since its inception. Her book The Tillable Land, poems, was a finalist for The Weatherford Award. She lives outside Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband and has a small farm of rocks and hills in Hardin County that she uses as a writing retreat.
Reason for signing up:
It's the challenge and the community.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 02, 2024 Wild Cherry, Maple, Mock Orange, Holly and Blue Spruce Trees Nearby
- June 04, 2024 As I Travel
- June 12, 2024 I May Be a Day Late and a Dollar Short
- June 14, 2024 Wild Black Raspberries
- June 16, 2024 Wild Black Raspberries #2
- June 17, 2024 I’ve Fallen In Love With Vienna Fingers
- June 18, 2024 I’m Half Inside and Half Outside Myself Today
- June 20, 2024 Ode to Mallet
- June 21, 2024 RV Demands New Tires Even Though We’d Decided Against Them Prior to Putting Her Up For Sale
- June 22, 2024 How Renovating the RV Turned Into An RV For Sale With New Tires
- June 23, 2024 How I Trick Myself Into Not Wasting a Single Leaf
- June 25, 2024 Morning Puzzle: I’m Standing At The Window But Little Rabbit Has Lots Of Energy
- June 26, 2024 I Worry About Loss Of The Power Grid When Heat And Humidity Soar
- June 28, 2024 As I Drive To Lexington With the Sun’s Heat Blasting the Car’s Windows I Notice To My Right
- June 29, 2024 How Vascular Dementia Can Mess With Your Emotions
Badges
Participated in the 2013 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2014 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2015 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2016 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
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