Soul Poetry

One of the questions I get the most is: where do you get your inspiration? I can honestly say everywhere! Sometimes inspiration comes like a lightning bolt and zaps my brain. When that happens, I have to have a paper and pen on hand to write down my thoughts before they disappear. Sometimes certain events, places, or people will inspire my words. I also get great ideas from poetry prompts or from a magazine’s set theme. Other times my poems come from a source of great pain. It’s in those dark moments that I feel most compelled to write. I suppose writing acts as some kind of therapy — it’s a way to examine the broken parts of me and put them back together again.

Links to Poetry Prompts

https://thinkwritten.com/poetry-prompts

A Year in Review

This has been a wonderful year for writing! While not making a “resolution” on January 1, 2024, I did with purposeful intention commit to writing almost every day. To me, writing is life and breath. It’s sanity and salvation. It’s creative and therapeutic. I would like to say I’m inspired every day to write, but as all writers are prone to do, I often come up against blocks. Even on those days, though, I read poetry, short stories, novels–anything that involves words, people, places and ideas. I’m overjoyed to say that this year I averaged writing 3 new poems per week and had 217 poems accepted and/or published. In addition, my friend, Shiloh, gave me a set of story dice, and just from rolling the dice, I managed to write four short stories and had a total of seven short stories published. One story, “Gloves Off” even made it into Across the Margin’s best stories of 2024. I am beyond grateful for my gift of writing, for the ability to take words and craft them into works of art. As I anxiously await the author’s copies of my third book, Mosaic: A Million Little Pieces, I pray that I can continue to fill the world with words that touch people’s lives. God bless. Happy New Year.