https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/Help write the round robin poem! Anyone can help - a line or a stanza. What else is new?hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/600007Good morning! I am working on a couple of articles regarding job seeking and networking. If you could take a few minutes and provide me with answers to these questions I would be quite appreciative. By responding to me you are giving me permission to use your comments and also quote you if I feel...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/597569Some of you may or may not know that I am interested in women's studies and women's history. I often will pick up poetry or other items that relate to women's issues. Here are the names of a couple of those books and also a poem from one of them that I wanted to share. The first book is CLAIMING...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/597079Cherry Wine Cherry wine and chocolate Led to the tall grass Fronds like green sandy paper In which to hide. A bit of wine. A bit of chocolate. A charm or two. It’s, oh, so fine. It’s chocolate, cherry wine. Indulge me, sir. You lay me down. Pour that chocolate wine— Pop that cherry, Oh, so fine....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/596430Sea-foam green your ’65 Ford truck contained four teens squeezed in the front parked down a road now full of mud. We sat and smoked and talked and laughed. Raindrops fell and fell, trees hung low windshield foggy, gray, and foul. We sat warm in yellow slickers the rain let up the wind blew calm....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/596097Thanks to everyone who commented on my “Midwife” poem. I found it interesting that many of you found this delivery option (the baby delivery not my poetry delivery) a good one. I agree. What you wouldn’t know was that this poem was written as a response to A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/595844The midwife comes when pain is set Candle light serves soft the glow Firelight flicks the walls while shadows move My friends are here, my labor comes I rise from bed and bend my knees The midwife soothes me with her talk One friend, my thighs she rubs and rubs Two friends both hold me up in love...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/595645My husband's favorite poem that I wrote a number of years ago. IMAGINING At night— free-falling off red clay cliffs into luminescent pools of water That coolly caresses and tingles my body sliver, with a rushing wash, icing my armpits. To deep recesses I swiftly descend losing the world like...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/595432Responses from (BetsyLewis, wiccan_she_wolf, Kabu, Ariala, MedicineFlower) A few days ago I posted wondering how many of the souls on blogit have self-published, or indie-published. I have repeated responses here. I hope this will help anyone looking to self-publish. I would like to collect...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/595255Audre Lorde is one of my all-time favorite black poets. In reading sam444’s tribute to Langston Hughes in honor of Black History Month, I thought I, too, would honor one of my favorite poets. So I am posting it here. Who knows? Perhaps Lorde will also become one of your favorite poets. I used to...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis4316/595031FARM MORNING Opening the door I hear No sound – not far, not near. I gaze across the field into the woods, trees yield to early light, the trees just blaze, a gilded glow that meets my gaze. The old lilac bush not yet in flower a landing for finches under power on wings that flap so fast upon...