Plethora
If I had any gumption, I’d attack that backlog of
poems that I have written about life and death and love.
Fantastic in their numbers, those poems exist in piles,
bound in three-ring binders and squeezed into hanging files.
Thy cluster in my consciousness, swim nightly through each dream.
They are both strength and weakness as they stretch out, ream on ream.
They allow me no real leisure, for they’re everywhere I look,
begging for confinement in a magazine or book.
They crave to be collected between front and back cover,
but in spite of resolutions, IÂ simply write another.
This poem and these photos are no exaggeration. I have 13 file cabinet drawers plus one big bin and a few piles, binders and stacks that contain poems and stories I’ve run off, or ideas for new ones. I have no idea now many poems I have in my blog and computer that I’ve never run off.Â
Prompt words today are fantastic, weakness, backlog, gumption, allow and cluster.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Your fans would love to read them. Happy New Year, Judy. I am getting use of my left leg more each day. I am pushing it as much as I can because I am ready for my life back. But I am alive, so 2023 should be great!
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You’re doing physical therapy, right? It is no fun to be “stove up.” I’ve been the same with my back. Feel like an old lady limping around.
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Wonderful
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Thanks, Derrick. So have you shifted over to a new blog yet? I could read you yesterday but haven’t reached you yet today. I’m about to go out to dinner with friends but will search when I get home.
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Yes – you should be able to access my newly managed WP posts – although WP have suddenly migrated all my followers. Thank you very much, Judy
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I got a shredder for that purpose and put it to good use. And then I put some in a little book.
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I have a lot less paper with my jottings but I do have random books of writing here and there. I wonder what will happen when I am gone. No one will read them or go through my copious photos I suspect.
Do you have a plan for all those writings?
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That’s how I feel, so feel the need to get at least some together. Just an overwhelming task. Hoping someone will come along who is dying to do so and in need of cash to motivate them farther.
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Decided to count. I have 13 file drawers in cabinets spread throughout my house. In addition, a storage box and various hidden piles…
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Well we do enjoy them, so keep them coming!
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The perils and pitfalls of plethora! I love the ending. 🙂
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I can relate to that.
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