This week I received the thrilling news that one of my poems has been accepted for this year's Artemis Journal. This year's theme is Homeward Bound, also the title of my poem. I've been published a few times in this prestigious journal, but the last time was the 2022 issue.
Yahoo Sandra! Love hearing that your poem was selected! Will certainly be looking forward to seeing it! I do enjoy poetry. It comes in fits and starts in my life. And in many different forms. Sometimes very formal and metered and other times with whimsey from an uncle saying, The sky is blue, the grass is green, I wonder where the flowers, is? :-)
Congratulations to you poet friend of mine. It is the good memories that pulls me back. So many times I have thought of going back home where those memories are and where family still lives close by. Yet so much of my heart dwells here in what I call my second home Portland, Oregon and so I stay.
Congrats on the poem. What place calls me? I have called six places ‘home’ in my close-on 81 years and have always been happiest where I was at the time. If anywhere ‘calls me’ then it has to be the sea. I have a sister and daughter who live in Hastings and Cleethorpes and I love visiting them. I was born by the sea in Torquay and my mother and stepfather lived in Eastbourne for the last thirty years of their lives. Cleethorpes is a working town which morphs into its neighbour Grimsby and I love it for that. If I ever go anywhere it will be there. 🐰
Congratulations Sandra. This is so exciting. I can’t wait to read your poem.
Thank you!
I am most at home in the woods. Sitting quietly, listening..
Congratulations, Sis. I look forward to reading the magazine.
Yahoo Sandra! Love hearing that your poem was selected! Will certainly be looking forward to seeing it! I do enjoy poetry. It comes in fits and starts in my life. And in many different forms. Sometimes very formal and metered and other times with whimsey from an uncle saying, The sky is blue, the grass is green, I wonder where the flowers, is? :-)
Congratulations to you poet friend of mine. It is the good memories that pulls me back. So many times I have thought of going back home where those memories are and where family still lives close by. Yet so much of my heart dwells here in what I call my second home Portland, Oregon and so I stay.
Ah yes. Me too.
Congrats on the poem. What place calls me? I have called six places ‘home’ in my close-on 81 years and have always been happiest where I was at the time. If anywhere ‘calls me’ then it has to be the sea. I have a sister and daughter who live in Hastings and Cleethorpes and I love visiting them. I was born by the sea in Torquay and my mother and stepfather lived in Eastbourne for the last thirty years of their lives. Cleethorpes is a working town which morphs into its neighbour Grimsby and I love it for that. If I ever go anywhere it will be there. 🐰
Nice! Thank you for sharing. I was born and raised land-locked (except for creeks and rivers), but I do love the ocean!
How wonderful, Sandra! Artemis is a fine journal. We're celebrating with you!
Thank you, Susan!