Poetry Friday is here today!!

planting pinks
purple salvia, cat mint -
resting in lilies

-Andromeda Jazmon

I've been working in the garden a lot this past month. Usually by July I've given up on it and retreated to the cool of air conditioning, but this year it's been so cool and rainy I am still in planting mode. I keep trimming things back and adding new plants. It's a relief sometimes I sit back and rest my gaze on the old familiar perennials that come back year after year... like the day lilies that were here when I bought the house. There is no orange and gold like theirs in the late afternoon sun... Hope you have a peaceful corner such as this.

I am hosting Friday Poetry today, the weekly roundup of all things poetic in the blogosphere. Anyone can join in by linking to your post about poetry. I have unfortunately come down with Lyme disease and will probably be spending a good deal of the day visiting doctors, so I won't be able to update through out the day. Please leave your link in the Mr. Linky here and come back to click on everyone else's contribution. Be sure to put your name or blog name as well as the poet or poem title in Mr. Linky, along with the URL of your post, so everyone gets a clue about what you are sharing.




Here's what we have so far:

1. Semicolon (The King of Love My Shepherd Is) 3. The Write Sisters (4 Tanka by Ono no Komachi) 4. Mother Reader (Sand Art video) 5. Kelly Fineman (Instructions by Neil Gaiman) 7. Julie Larios [Touriste] 8. Tabatha (The Vampire Nosferatu) 9. Tricia (August by Elise Partridge) 11. Laura Salas (2 original poems) 12. Laura Salas ( Trapped in a Tree) 13. Janet (Wendy Cope, " Being Boring") 14. Mary Lee (best wishes for back- to- school) 15. Shelf Elf (The Chairs that No On Sits In)

16. Diane Mayr (looks at the Poetry Home Repair Manual) 17. Kurious Kitty (Vermont Afternoons with Robert Frost) 18. Tanita - on bears and fat 20. Linda (original poem) 21. Poem by April Halprin Wayland--( This Empty Space) 22. Laura Shovan (Alexie's " How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" 23. Just One More Book! Podcast (Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper) 24. Jules -- A friend's poetry 25. The Stenhouse Blog (The Circle of Summer) 26. jama rattigan (White Rabbit by Grace Slick) 27. Father Goose 28. Sally at Paper Tigers 29. Beth at Stone Arch Books (Infant Joy - William Blake) 30. Sylvia (Capstone rainforest poetry)

31. Susan (Hush by Mingfo Ho) 32. Wild Rose Reader (Bridge Banter: An Original Fairy Tale Poem) 33. Political Verses (Glenn Beck Revisited) 34. Tiel Aisha Ansari 35. readertotz (A Star) 36. Lorie Ann Grover (Hair Today) 37. Little Willow - The Web of Eros by Edith Sitwell 38. Ms Mac (poetry book study) 39. Martha Calderaro (original kids' poem: " High Tide") 40. Karen Edmisten 41. Liz in Ink (with excerpts from All the World)

To add your post click the Mr. Linky icon above this list and put your name & URL in the form in the new window that opens.

Thank you all for your well wishes. I wasn't able to get to the specialist today, because they are so busy they couldn't fit me in. I am looking at a long weekend of painful headaches unless I take the Rx pain-killer that makes me woozy. What a choice, eh? Prayers are appreciated!!