Bio for 2020
Melva Sue, a native Kentuckian, writes about a range of human emotion and experiences. She loves, also, gardening and grand kids and reading.
Reason for signing up:
It's become tradition, though this year time is so hit and miss and full of grief that I'm late.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 04, 2020 My Heart is Heavy With & for
- June 05, 2020 When my father has a stroke and dies
- June 07, 2020 The carrots & beets & turnips & parsnips
- June 08, 2020 I thought I’d removed my fitbit during sleep & find
- June 17, 2020 A female deer tick
- June 18, 2020 Driving across the bluegrass parkway mid morning #1
- June 19, 2020 Driving across the bluegrass parkway mid morning #2
- June 20, 2020 Driving across the bluegrass parkway mid morning #3
- June 21, 2020 What would happen if we stopped using “race”
- June 22, 2020 Picking sugar snaps peas—a preview for cataracts—
- June 24, 2020 Picking sugar snaps—even with five passes—
- June 25, 2020 Picking sugar snaps—even into late June—
- June 26, 2020 Open red tool box, find the box cutter, pull out the saved cardboard boxes,
- June 28, 2020 28 June 2020
- June 29, 2020 Surrounded by books, papers, houseplants, gardens out the windows, new grass growing, thunder booming, lights, lots of lights,
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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