JoAnn Early Macken

 

Apr 28, 2024 5:40 PM EDT

Yes! You captured the "imposter syndrome" I harbor often beneath my skin! Love it, Joann!

- PATRICIA FRANZ

Apr 28, 2024 5:50 PM EDT

Sharing it is like the sugar on top, too! Love this thought-filled poem, JoAnn!

- Linda Baie

Apr 28, 2024 9:28 PM EDT

Encouragement that's practical but always needed! :)

- Karen Edmisten

Apr 19, 2024 1:06 PM EDT

Joann, adorable photo and haiku! The idea of rabbits flipping head over heels is so cute! Happy springtime!

- Tracey Kiff-Judson

Apr 19, 2024 4:54 PM EDT

I'm afraid I can't read "Tra-la" without thinking of Captain Underpants...but your bunnies are very cute and "thunder on patrol" from yesterday is thrilling!

- Heidi

Apr 19, 2024 4:55 PM EDT

Love the hope in springtime!

- Rose Cappelli

Apr 19, 2024 9:46 PM EDT

I saw a rabbit hopping across my yard one day this week. Now I can imagine that bunny flipping head over heels.

- Verrena Diane Anderson

Apr 20, 2024 9:19 AM EDT

JoAnn, the bunnies are adorable and it is good know that they are heads over heels in love with spring. If interested join me for another padlet and gallery.

- Carol Varsalona

Apr 20, 2024 8:01 PM EDT

I haven't seen any nesting birds, but I've heard plenty of birds singing! I'm sure they're there! Tra-la! to you!

- Linda Baie

Apr 21, 2024 12:55 AM EDT

Oh gosh! Did you see the flip???

- PATRICIA J FRANZ

Apr 20, 2024 4:54 PM EDT

Yes, sounds delightful! "unfold" is a great choice.

- Tabatha

Apr 12, 2024 11:58 PM EDT

Joann, what a fun poem with the surrounding pictures. I like the switch of glove and shoe to match the rhyming words. It's fun to read. A great children's rhyme, I think.

- Denise Krebs

Apr 13, 2024 10:49 AM EDT

Oh YAY! Ode to Lost Things! I'm thinking of my snow gloves that lie under 5 feet of snow on a path --that perhaps will make their way into someone's poem (or back home to me) because some wonderful soul will perch them on a branch.

- PATRICIA J FRANZ

Apr 13, 2024 11:26 AM EDT

Poetry is literally everywhere inside of everything!

- Mary Lee Hahn

Apr 13, 2024 2:54 PM EDT

Capturing the moments, love it, JoAnn! I've lost a glove or two but never a toothbrush - fun!

- Linda Baie

Apr 13, 2024 8:31 PM EDT

Joann, this immediately made me think of the huge bag of single socks that we had sitting on our laundry-folding table. I finally got rid of most of them a week ago, but the collection was years in the making! I love your poem of love and loss!

- Tracey Kiff-Judson

Apr 13, 2024 10:48 PM EDT

So true, JoAnn! We've all lost plenty. Losing a glove is easy as falling off a log.

- Tabatha

Apr 14, 2024 10:10 AM EDT

So fun! Yes, it's so interesting to see lost things. I love your collection of them.

- Marcie Flinchum Atkins

Apr 15, 2024 12:51 AM EDT

Fun poem! Thank you! It reminds me of an art installation in a train station where I grew up, where they bronzed a whole bunch of gloves and stuck them on the escalator, like a lost and found bin frozen in time!

- Sarah Grace Tuttle

Apr 15, 2024 8:31 AM EDT

Oh, my goodness. Your ditty made me laugh. It's a relief to look at lost things that are NOT that important. And yes, I've lost plenty :>D

- Laura Purdie Salas

Apr 15, 2024 9:11 PM EDT

This is a fun project. I am constantly losing keys.

- Jone MacCulloch

Apr 16, 2024 10:51 AM EDT

A rousing "Yes!" — I relate to losing things, and also love the idea of odes to lost things we've discovered.

- Karen Edmisten

Apr 05, 2024 9:12 AM EDT

touch magic/in a spring garden
This is good advice!
I'm enjoying your lost and found poems.

- Tricia (Miss Rumphius)

Apr 05, 2024 2:09 PM EDT

OH, Joann, what a great healing when one loses the artist's way. Take a garden break and find magic. It reminds me of Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic, which I just finished listening to yesterday. When you hit a wall in one creative outlet, try something else to regain momentum. Nice poem with an important message.

- Denise Krebs

Apr 05, 2024 5:24 PM EDT

Perfect! One finds oneself in the earth, spring gardens are waking up!

- Linda Baie

Apr 05, 2024 7:31 PM EDT

Very nice, Joann! I am enjoying your daily poems. Keep going!

- Tabatha

Apr 05, 2024 11:42 PM EDT

How clever, Joann! You touched magic!

- Tracey Kiff-Judson

Apr 06, 2024 8:30 AM EDT

Oooh, I often mend in my garden. Thank you JoAnn!

- Irene Latham

Apr 06, 2024 10:26 AM EDT

Great advice!

- Mary Lee Hahn

Apr 07, 2024 1:20 AM EDT

I'm a spine-poem-fan! This one is really fun. thanks!

- PATRICIA J FRANZ

Apr 07, 2024 8:02 AM EDT

Lovely, JoAnn! Nature is a wonderful place to mend.

- Rose Cappelli

Apr 08, 2024 1:44 PM EDT

I absolutely love your blog. Thank you so much for the poetry, photos, and postings.

- Phyllis Santacroce

Apr 08, 2024 4:54 PM EDT

How fun to read yours and Tricia's spine poems back to back. This is fabulous, JoAnn!

- Laura Purdie Salas