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Joy in Words – and Pics!

Hello! Again. Since I’m still pottering along with my 365 #photoaday challenge – and adding poetry into the mix, I thought I’d pop in and share again. I know they’re not brilliant. But I’m really enjoying this play with creativity purely for the fun of it. I hadn’t realised how much I needed this. But this is me; joy in words. (And photos!)

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Oops. Taken by the beauty. Not a photo-a-day prompt.

Thanks so much Mary Lee for hosting us today, at A(nother) Year of Reading. And thank-YOU for popping along and being such an awesome community of friends and poets! (And inspiring me with your elfchens, last week!)

Can I just share some last ‘bonus’ pics with you before I leave? Because that rain… It did come. And our big dam is full! I have spent many hours out on my kayak during golden hour, this week. It’s been gorgeous! The birds are tricky to capture on my phone – but the beauty is not. (It’s just been a wrangle getting them from my phone to my computer! Gargh!)

Have a wonderful week, whatever the weather! I suspect we may be in for more rain – because it’s another steamy day here. Hoping our road stays open into the next week (it closed for two days this past week), as I have places to be!🙃

Insta-Poetry

I hope your year has got off to a 🎉cracker🎊 start. 2018 was an amazing writing journey, and I am hoping it keeps rolling into 2019. It’s already been quite productive, writing a synopsis and query letter for that historical Antarctic verse novel I worked on throughout 2018, (So excited about that!) and putting down some words for a new picture book that has been rolling around in my mind the past 12 months. AND … In the spirit of Month of Poetry from years gone by, I spur-of-the-moment started writing a poem-a-day as a snapshot diary-of-sorts for the start of 2019. Some Insta-Poetry! I’m not sure I’ll stick with it for the full month (I am quite happy to fall down a hole with other writing projects) … but wordplay is always a good thing, and good fun! If you want to jump on board, I’m using the hashtag #MoPoetry2019 on Instagram. (It’s just me, at the moment.🙂)

If you’re intrigued by that flower in the top pic, you can see more on my instagram, starting at this post. My camera was a wee-bit busy over the 12hr period it bloomed so beautifully.

Sylvia has the roundup this week, at Poetry for Children. Next week I’ll be hosting the #PoetryFriday roundup – so check back then for links to poetry posts around the world and be inspired! For now… I’m off for a crit & chat with some lovely local kidlit peeps. I may be gone for a while… 😂