Poetry Minute and Hiatus

12/19/2013

I want to thank Kenn Nesbitt for posting my poem, "High Dive" on Poetry Minute.org this past Tuesday, December 17, 2014! Here's the poem:

I never can understand why
a diver will climb toward the sky
to pull off a gainer.
Is nothing insaner
than diving from 30 feet high?

(c) B.J. Lee 2012 All Rights Reserved

I wrote this poem for the anthology, And the Crowd Goes Wild! A Global Gathering of Sports Poems, edited by Carol-Ann Hoyte and Heidi Bee Roemer. It was a lot of fun seeing this anthology come together with poems about sports from poets around the world!

If any of you are not familiar with Kenn's site, I wholeheartedly recommend checking it out! He is posting a poem a day for every day of the school year! I have subscribed and it is wonderful to receive a new children's poem in my inbox every day!

Notice of Hiatus

I also want to post my notice of hiatus. I have a nasty sprained ankle. I have been absent from the poetry community for a bit now and I keep postponing announcing a haitus because I think I will surely be mended any day now. Not! I need to really take it easy, my doctor has urged. Sigh! So, I guess I need to take it seriously and stop hovering on the borders of doing too much and aggravating the sprain. But, knowing me, now that I've announced the hiatus, I'll probably be better in no time at all! We'll see.

Anyway I miss participating in the poetry community, but I'll be back before long!

I guess I won't be wearing these any time soon!

Okay, signing off! Time to put my feet up!

16 Comments

Buffy Silverman link

12/19/2013 11:16:56 am

My ankles are hurting just looking at those golden slippers! Hope you mend quickly--congrats again for the Poetry Minute poem.

B.J. Lee

12/20/2013 03:07:11 am

Thank you, Buffy! I'm always amazed at the incredibly stupid footwear some women will wear!

Keri Collins Lewis

12/20/2013 01:13:53 am

Be kind to yourself and mend, B.J.! Feel better soon!

B.J. Lee

12/20/2013 03:07:37 am

Thanks so much, Keri!

Penny Parker Klostermann link

12/20/2013 02:40:20 am

B.J.
Congrats on having you poem featured on Poetry Minute. I am enjoying reading all of the poems he's posting!
Hope you heal quickly!

B.J. Lee

12/20/2013 03:09:00 am

Hi Penny! I'm so enjoying the Poetry Minute site too! Thanks for stopping by and for your well wishes too!

Linda Baie link

12/20/2013 06:06:59 am

The Poetry Minute site is wonderful, I agree BJ, & I did see your poem equally wonderful. That is one sport in the Olympics that always worries me! Best wishes for your ankle-may be a good time to rest now. Let others bring you the cookies!

B.J. Lee

12/20/2013 10:40:31 pm

Thank you, Linda! I WILL let others bring me the cookies! I got out of a lot of holiday baking/cooking this year which I don't mind at all!

Violet N. link

12/20/2013 11:44:41 am

Congrats on the fun poem and publication on Kenn's site! And I hope you get better fast!

B.J. Lee

12/20/2013 10:41:08 pm

Thank you, Violet!

Mary Lee Hahn link

12/21/2013 06:15:08 am

Heal fast! Write lots!

B.J. Lee

2/12/2014 09:30:47 pm

Thank you, Mary Lee!

Michelle Heidenrich Barnes link

12/21/2013 12:32:47 pm

You can't fool me, B.J. I know that it was parading around in those wonky ol' shoes that gave you the sprain in the first place! Now THAT may be the only thing "insaner than diving from 30 feet high!" Sending healing vibes your way. :)

B.J. Lee

6/24/2014 05:08:51 pm

thank you Michelle! :)

Tabatha link

12/21/2013 06:33:26 pm

Michelle's comment made me laugh. Hope you heal quickly and easily, B.J.! It's hard to take it easy when there are so many things that need doing :-)
Happy Holidays!

B.J. Lee

1/12/2014 12:18:23 am

Thank you, Tabatha!

Author

B. J. Lee is a children’s author and poet. Her picture book, There Was an Old Gator Who Swallowed a Moth, is launching with Pelican Publishing on February 15, 2019. She has poems in 25 poetry anthologies published by Little, Brown, Wordsong, BloomsburyUK, National Geographic, Otter-Barry Books, Pomelo Books, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. She has worked with anthologists Lee Bennett Hopkins, J. Patrick Lewis and Kenn Nesbitt. She has written poems for such children’s magazines as Spider, Highlights and The School Magazine. Follow her on Twitter @bjlee_writer.

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