Bio for 2022
Melva Sue's debut poetry book, The Tillable Land, includes six poems first published in LexPoMo.. Available from Shadelandhouse Modern Press and local bookstores.
Reason for signing up:
I love LexPoMo. The challenge to write everyday calls to me.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2022 I Try My Hand at Crossword Puzzles
- June 02, 2022 Three Eggplants Potted on the Back Patio
- June 03, 2022 They Try Hard Enough, Someone Will Cave
- June 04, 2022 Wild in the Garden
- June 05, 2022 When My Bothered Body Screams
- June 06, 2022 Overheard
- June 07, 2022 Only Forelegs
- June 08, 2022 I Ponder Posting Poems During a Lightning Storm
- June 10, 2022 “The poet is the great anti-specialist.”
- June 11, 2022 When Things Are Difficult, You Hold Your Chin High And Plow Through
- June 12, 2022 Because Kentucky Is Limestone Country
- June 13, 2022 My Despair Grows Tall
- June 14, 2022 Gardening Around the Heat
- June 15, 2022 Can a Waitperson Really Handle This?
- June 16, 2022 Driving Home After a Movie, Turning a Certain Curve in the Road
- June 17, 2022 When Vocabulary Was Lessor or What They Didn’t Teach Us
- June 18, 2022 Elemental
- June 19, 2022 Benjamin Franklin: "Fish and Visitors Smell After Three Days"
- June 20, 2022 Summer Solstice
- June 21, 2022 Early Morning Hours
- June 22, 2022 From the Patio, the Cool of the Morning
- June 23, 2022 The Great Human Error of Thinking We Are Separate
- June 24, 2022 Threnody
- June 25, 2022 Loss & Emptiness Are Not the Same Thing
- June 26, 2022 The Hoarder Who Boxes Himself In Looses the Option of Space Even as He Watches & Regrets & Tries to Change
- June 27, 2022 O Guiding Light, Soul of All Things Desirable, Necessary & Needed
- June 28, 2022 Mind: a Lens that Distorts or Not
- June 29, 2022 Harmony’s Second Clutch Fledge One at a Time
- June 30, 2022 On the Hottest Day This Week
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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