Considering A Leaf in May

        That final Poetry Friday in May is hosted by Margaret Simon at Reflections on the Teche. It seems like a good time to celebrate summer, ready for those glorious days of color-filled June. Margaret talks of ideas growing, and I have had the pleasure of adding to Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Kimberley Moran's idea of adding ideas for summer notebooks. You can find the collection kickoff here! 
         Thanks for hosting, Margaret.

         Nikki Grimes has challenged everyone at Michelle Barnes' Today's Little Ditty to try a wordplay exercise this month, to write a free verse poems per one word from the word list given. Click HERE for all the details.

          I do love Michelle's challenges, and am late writing, but did manage one this week.  

Leaf Maps

Consider the veins:

tiniest of lines,

road map of leafy highways,

echoing the plant’s branches -

drinking long,

creating beauty,

glorious green energy

to send back down the road.

Linda Baie ©All Rights Reserved

Visiting Another Blog - Sharing Our Notebooks!

            I've used writer's notebooks for most of my life.  Some call them diaries, some say daybooks, but whatever they are named, for a writer, they are important!  I'm honored to share a bit of how and why I use notebooks over at Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's blog, Sharing Our Notebooks! Amy, of Poem Farm fame, has many guests on this notebook blog, and I've enjoyed so many who have written about their love affair with writers' notebooks.  This time I get to share!  Please come visit!  

              And thanks to Amy for the opportunity!