tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56954931692315470442024-03-12T16:50:55.443-07:00FlowertopiaKathy Figueroa Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17621129005771812997noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695493169231547044.post-33018259642838152242012-12-10T10:49:00.002-08:002012-12-10T12:30:40.649-08:002012 Was A Banner Year!<div style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">In 2011 and 2012, my focus was mainly on my writing, which means
that my small plant nursery business and flower gardens didn't receive
the attention that I'd given to these things, in the past. Countless
hours spent working on the computer (instead of out in the yard) do seem
to have been worth the effort, though. I'm happy to say that this
year, 2012, has been a banner year for me! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A real
milestone for me was having my book, 'Paudash Poems,' published by Brian
Wrixon Books, of Burlington, Ontario, in July of this year! This
volume contains almost every one of my poems that has appeared in The
Bancroft Times newspaper, starting with the first one, 'Springtime In
Paudash,' which was published back in May, 2006. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As
well, I'm very happy that I was able to contribute to a dozen different
Canadian poetry anthologies that were published in 2012! Here's a list
of the books that include my work:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WORDS ON THE WINDS OF CHANGE</span></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Brian Wrixon Books</span></b> (2 poems): 1. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hey, Communist / Capitalist China</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 2. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where’s Mr. Hada (Part I)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ~ March 16, 2012 </span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TRIPPING ON WORDS A LITERARY ATLAS</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Brian Wrixon Books</span></b> (3 poems): 1. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Trees (Ontario, Canada)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 2. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Springtime In Paudash</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 3. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In My Garden (A Winter Reverie)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ~ April 17, 2012 </span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">THE SURVIVOR’S GUIDE TO BEDLAM</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Brian Wrixon Books</span></b> (2 poems): 1. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Purify</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 2. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Monster Of The Lakeside Marsh </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~ May 24, 2012 </span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">THE FOUR SEASONS</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is volume 1 of 4 in the poetry anthology called, ‘REFLECTIONS ON A BLUE PLANET’ - <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Brian Wrixon Books</span></b> (1 poem): </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s Winter </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~ July 12, 2012 </span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EARTH, WATER, SKY</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is volume 2 of 4 in the poetry anthology called, ‘REFLECTIONS ON A BLUE PLANET’ - <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Brian Wrixon Books</span></b> (2 poems): 1. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blue (A Poem For The Blue Planet)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 2. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pink Sky</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ~ July 12, 2012 </span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ALL GOD’S CREATURES</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is volume 3 of 4 in the poetry anthology called, ‘REFLECTIONS ON A BLUE PLANET’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="color: #38761d;">Brian Wrixon Books</b> (3 poems): 1. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eulogy For A Bat</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 2. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like A Starry Night</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 3. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The November War</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ~ July 12, 2012 </span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NATURE’S PALETTE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is volume 4 of 4 in the poetry anthology called, ‘REFLECTIONS ON A BLUE PLANET</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Brian Wrixon Books</span></b> (1 poem): </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jerusalem Daylily</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ~ July 12, 2012 </span></li>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A POET’S VIEW OF BEING</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Brian Wrixon Books</span></b> (7 poems): 1. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Day In June; </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chocolate</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 3. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gumboots</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 4. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Junque Maximus</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 5. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ode To Housework</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 6. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To The Hardware Store I Go</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; 7. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Things Happen </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~ October 15, 2012</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Welcome to Flowertopia!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love working in my flower gardens and often think that there's no place I'd rather be, especially during bloom season, so I call my gardens, 'Flowertopia.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blogging is something new to me and I'm just learning how to do it so, until this blog site is a bit more developed, here are some links to other places where you can currently find my poetry in cyberspace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><b>Facebook:</b><span style="color: #e06666;"><b> </b> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Kathy.Figueroa.Poetry" style="color: #e06666;">https://www.facebook.com/Kathy.Figueroa.Poetry</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Facebook:</span></b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PoetsSocietyOfHastingsCountyNorthOntarioCanada"><span style="color: #e06666;">https://www.facebook.com/PoetsSocietyOfHastingsCountyNorthOntarioCanada</span></a><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Author Amok:</b> </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><a href="http://authoramok.blogspot.ca/2012/04/30-habits-of-highly-effective-poets_23.html" style="color: #e06666;">http://authoramok.blogspot.ca/2012/04/30-habits-of-highly-effective-poets_23.html </a></span></div>
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<b>Fieralingue:</b> </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=397" style="color: #e06666;">http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=397</a></span></div>
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<b>Guernsey Poets:</b> </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><a href="http://guernseypoets.blogspot.ca/search/label/Kathy%20Figueroa" style="color: #e06666;">http://guernseypoets.blogspot.ca/search/label/Kathy%20Figueroa </a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">This is one of my own daylily seedlings.</span></div>
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nursery, specializing in fancy daylilies. Currently, there are over
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unregistered seedlings that are the result of my hybridizing efforts. I love photographing the flowers in bloom. Sometimes, I'll add the text of a short poem to a photograph. Four or five of these, 'text over photo,' poems have been published in the local newspapers, including 'The Bancroft Times,' and, 'Bancroft This Week.' I'll post these, also.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Frequently, it's while I'm working in the flower gardens that I become inspired to write a poem. Often, the first lines just occur to me, out of nowhere, while I'm busy weeding away...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's a link to more pictures of, 'Flowertopia.' <span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://flickriver.com/photos/fancy-daylilies/popular-interesting/" style="color: #e06666;">http://flickriver.com/photos/fancy-daylilies/popular-interesting/ </a></span></span></span><br />
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