May is closing! I’ve not had time to revel in the warm air and shake out winter. But I cheer the colors of rhododendron and azaleas; Spring is my favorite time of the year. I’m lifted out of myself and given energy to move forward.

A message for today is to look at all the poetry that you have created: single lines, jumbled stanzas, nearly revised masterpieces and other odds and ends and put together a collection of a dozen good poems – print them and collected them and set them aside. You’ll have the beginning of your book of poems.