It is once again that time when we come together to share our work from the week. I hope some of you tried some form of reflecting on your family’s ancestry, or studying a story from the past in some respect, but no matter what you’ve put together, please share it here!

Because of the prompt this week, I think it is a fitting time to announce that I will be stepping back from my role as contributor here at Read Write Poem. It is a decision that was not at all easy to come to, but restraints on my own life, as well as an ongoing struggle with writer’s block (and other writing issues) has made it necessary for me at this time. I have spent much of the week thinking back on the legacy here at RWP, and I am so thankful I’ve had a chance to be part of this hodge-podge family tree of sorts. Many thanks to Deb and the rest of the RWP team — it has been a pleasure and an honor working with you all.

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Thank you, Blythe, for your love of poetry, your friendship, for your unique and lovely voice. You’ll be missed.

Everyone: Because it is the holidays, we might not get to the spam filter very often (I won’t have internet access, for example, for several days) to fish you out if you get caught in it. Be patient, leave only one link per comment and, if you have extra time to spend online reading poetry, please do so. Not everyone celebrates this time of year and a blog visit or comment might do someone else some good.

Be well. Be at peace.

Deb for Read Write Poem

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A note from “admin”: We here at Read Write Poem try to have as few rules as possible. Having said this, we do want to stress how important it is that you link back here in your posts, either with a hyperlink to Read Write Poem or by using the (pretty cool, if we say so ourselves) newish badge in your post. Putting a link in your sidebar is great — and we encourage that, love it we do — but it’s important for the group’s “internet health” that you link to us with each and every post you contribute to the project.

And please also add “Read Write Poem” in your tags, if you don’t mind. Search engines come up with weird stuff when they look for “RWP,” such as “Radiation Work Permit.” We’d much rather link them up with our poetry than with something from a bad sci-fi movie, or “event.”