Poetry Friday - It's January!

Poetry Friday today is hosted by Sally Murphy, a poet friend from across the sea, Australia! Sally shares one way to help the needs of her country because of the fires. It goes by the hashtag #authorsforfireys and ends Friday evening.  Our prayers are with her homeland and the terrible devastation by the fires. 
           And you can take a peek at Sally's new verse novel here! Thanks for hosting, Sally!
        
           Here is a link to a NY Times article that offers other ideas for giving to help those affected by these fires: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/australia/help-australia-fires.html

            Thanks to Jone MacCulloch who created the annual postcard exchange, I've been receiving wonderful Happy New Year postcards. Thanks to all. I'll share them next week!

            Here's a poem for the 'after'. A new year is a refresh, a beginning, a welcome for 'new', but also a 'remembering' what came before, to celebrate, to rue. January slip-slides into our lives whether we want it or not, and we begin!

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January Takeover

Day follows day 

frozen time 

choosing how to 

make a rhyme

reading stories 

baking bread

freeing to-do lists

from my head

  

hours now for 

nature walks

sketching writing

friendly talks

  

sparkles packed 

and put away 

quiet memories

that stay

Linda Baie ©