Poetry Friday and Slice of Life: Six Hundred Posts!

Today I join my fellow bloggers in "serving up a slice" 

to the Tuesday Slice of Life (SOL) community.

Thanks to Stacey, Betsy, Dana, Beth, Kathleen, Deb, Lisa, and Melanie

                    for hosting this meeting place each Tuesday and nurturing our writing lives.

Head over to Today's Little Ditty 

for this week's round-up of poetic goodness.  

Check out Michelle's response to Jane Yolen's 

DMC challenge in "No Words of My Own."

Thanks, Michelle, for hosting!

I responded to this month's ditty challenge from Jane Yolen for Tuesday's Slice of Life and for Poetry Friday with Michelle Heinrich Barnes.

"Write a poem in which reading and or writing is featured in the form of a septercet, a form I invented:

Each verse (as many verses as you want) needs to have three lines, each with seven syllables. It can be rhymed or not."

I quickly scanned my past six years of posts to find a post to write about from each year.  I won't tell you how long it took me to winnow the words and capture a post in 21 syllables, but it was a fun challenge.  You can click on the year if you'd prefer to read the wordier version.

Milestone reached - six hundred posts!

A writer born by blogging

This is where I found my tribe.

2011

Journey launches five years ago

Enticed by Mother Reader's

48 Hour Book Challenge.

2012

Sandra (former resident)

Touches red brick floor of porch

Where 4th grade self read and read.

2013

It skipped a generation

but the sewing gene lives on

in daughter Sara who quilts.

2014

I meander through raindrops

Stacey chooses to share my 

Windshield wiper ponderings

2015

Visit home from east coast kids

A poem stretches to capture

Each hug and happy moment.

2016

As tomatoes flourish I

Inhale essence of summer

and Daddy walks beside me.

A celebration of slices!
My journey continues with
Encouraging writer friends.