Post #30 – Women’s Memoirs, News – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
Women’s Memoirs has shared with you our fascinating interview with Janet Riehl, author of Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music. Janet’s website: http://www.riehlife.com/ is another great resource for writers.
All of this is background for an announcement from Janet that she’s celebrating National Poetry Month on her website and is inviting your submissions. Following is the information.
“In April for National Poetry Month, JANET RIEHL of Riehlife will publish a poem of the day. Poets can submit poems and posts (on creative process, their poetry, writing advice for poets) via www.riehlife.com. JANET’S goal is to run the poem and the guest post together. The mission of Riehlife is to create connections through the arts and across cultures.”
We urge you to contact Janet if you are interested.
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Kendra & Matilda,
Thanks for getting the word out on the Riehlife Poem-of-the-Day series for April Poetry Month.
I’m toggling between well-known poets & the rest of us. That is, the poets we drink tea with and rub shoulders with in the super market.
You don’t have to think of yourself as a “real poet” to submit. For example, I’ll be running some limericks and other fun poems.
Janet Riehl
Different Colors, Same Fragrance
The symbol of Love and Romance, a Rose
Grown with passion, it represents for all
Beauty of a single flower, touches us in any language
Laid on a coffin or presented to a potential love
A gift of little that means so much
Such a powerful symbol of Love
She was the beauty everyone loved to pick
Buds that bloomed to enjoy
The fragrance of her presence, would overwhelm
Never simple to grow, but the easiest to love
A stem of beauty and a heart to match
One to give, thousands will never match
She is the elegance of a gesture
The promise of love
Hopes encountered with every touch
Pedals of Love, and thorns that protect
The Plant or Soul, to convey
An essence of Love and Warmth
The flower afraid to pick
Knowing it’s beauty would fade
Added to GODS garden, She’s the missing Rose
To be wished for and wanted by others, is my SISTER
DEDICATED TO MY SISTER DONNA, WE’LL MISS YOU ALWAYS