This feels enormous.
This concept of writing my final solo prompt for OctPoWriMo2012
feels so…. I can’t even express it.
You may not know, but I have written and lead my fair share
of writing programs, but this is the first in a long time. I tend to start my
grieving early, so perhaps that is part of what I am feeling.
I feel pure joy that so many poets have been re-awakened,
started writing again after years of silence.
I feel satisfaction to read the words of new friends and
pure delight when several Bakersfield poets came along and wrote with us.
I recognize as we have written our way through OctPoWriMo
and in the weeks before we started, I have tried to share as many tidbits as I
could to not only help you write but to help you grow as poets…. I have worried
lately I have gone over the top in that direction. I suppose it is because I
want each and all of us to thrive as writers and to feel confident as we begin
to share our poetry with wider audiences.