Bio for 2023
Melva Sue Priddy, a LexPoMo participant since it's beginning, is author of The Tillable Land, her debut collection of poems. In addition to writing, she loves her family, grands, gardening, sewing. She is a native Kentuckian. You may contact her at melva.priddy@gmail.com
Reason for signing up:
Love the challenge and the community!
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 03, 2023 My First Three Poems
- June 04, 2023 During Yoga at the Park I Look up Into a Hackberry Tree
- June 05, 2023 O How I Long to Give You a Shadow as You Go
- June 06, 2023 Coral Honeysuckle, a North American Native, Arrives By Mail
- June 07, 2023 Stubborn Uncle, Who Refused Hospital Voluntarily, Dies Slowly
- June 08, 2023 My Daughter, The Coffee Snob, Accidentally Left a Quart of Cold Brew in My Fridge
- June 10, 2023 O Love, I’m Nearer Old Age Now And I Can Say This:
- June 11, 2023 Summer’s Heat Thaws In This Soothing Rain
- June 12, 2023 Solitaire, My New Transition, Gets Me Through The Dementia Stories He Can Not Help Making Up
- June 13, 2023 Blood Lily Stands Tall and Stout In Back Porch’s Wind
- June 14, 2023 Wild Onions And Creeping Charlie—They Task Me! Those Weeds, They Task Me!
- June 15, 2023 “Southern Baptists Finalize the Explosion of Two Churches with Female Pastors, a Move to Combat What Conservatives See as a Liberal Drift”*
- June 16, 2023 O June’s Rosy Glow Morning, Where Are You In the Long Dark Days of Winter
- June 17, 2023 I Wrapped Each Grand a Gift in Funny Pages for the Fun of It!
- June 18, 2023 Sequence, Offspring of Former Albino Robin, I See You’ve Returned to My Back Yard for a Second Summer
- June 20, 2023 Everywhere Here at Sandy Creek Farms, in The Stables, I See Woodcuts of Pistols Drawn
- June 21, 2023 Little Pig Made of Plaster, Sitting Under a Table
- June 22, 2023 Little Metal Four-Legged Bug Avec Deux Grandes Pinces
- June 23, 2023 “The Only Stretching Routine You’ll Ever Need”*
- June 24, 2023 Lake Water Reflects Clouds, Sky, Heat, Our Hearts, But Not The Eastern Narrow Mouthed Toad (A Fossorial Frog)
- June 25, 2023 Lakes, Ponds, Trails, Pines—a Modern Day Romance
- June 26, 2023 Eating Off My Organic Diet Four Days In A Row—Not My Best Cup Of Tea
- June 27, 2023 Upon Returning Home, The Red Lilies Have Bloomed, The Green Beans Are Five Inches Taller, Raspberries And Blackberries Are Ripening
- June 28, 2023 Sunflowers, You Tower And Shower The Garden With Your Face
- June 29, 2023 O LexPoMo—Month of June! How the Other Months Envy You!
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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