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The Challenge Poem Number 1

My husband has presented A challenge just for me Forty poems within three days Impossibility But I guess I will try to Do my best At 10:30 at night And I'll try to pen others I won't post on the site :)

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Valsa George

Date: 12/31/2024 2:10:00 AM

So happy to see you after a long while, that too with a herculean task. So, you have accepted your partner's challenge in the right spirit. All the Best dear one. Wish you a New Year of greater creativity, Happiness and Prosperity.

Bj Legros Kelley
Date: 1/11/2025 10:10:00 PM

Hello sweet Valsa! Oh yes, it was a long dryspell of writing, but we did get a lot of renovation work done, and between moving from within our home which is a rather big house, with lots of heavy furniture, six very tall bookcases loaded with books (who would guess I would own so many books??) Sectionals, bedroom sets, oh my gosh, about killed us!! Besides having family including four children have to move in and live with us when their own home also suffered a ruptured pipe (and flooded) help them move out of their big two-story home, a much bigger home than our own, I am surprised I wrote ten poems last year at all :) But this was a fun end of year challenge! My husband knew I felt terrible about my writing year and attempted to rectify it for me. I am coming back to reply to comments, so happy I met the challenge!

Gershon Wolf

Date: 12/30/2024 9:34:00 PM

You are a busy bee on quite a spree, Bj! ~ Polly Nation (Carrie's sister)

Bj Legros Kelley
Date: 1/11/2025 9:58:00 PM

Ha! Funny Gershon, lol! Polly Nation, took me a minute! I was so busy with this challenge, and I guess my 'Honey' broke the spell of to bee or not to bee a busy bee...ok, sorry!! Lol :)

Sam Kauffman

Date: 12/30/2024 10:52:00 AM

All the best for your challenge, BJ! I see you have been a very busy bee creating delight for the end of the year! Hope you are having a wonderful Christmas season! Blessings! Also hope there is a special prize waiting for you! So glad to see you posting again! I have been working on a Christmas Suite of poems - one for each day of the twelve days of Christmas! It really helps to keep me in the Christmas spirit and recognize that Christmas is a season not just one day!

Sam Kauffman
Date: 1/2/2025 12:14:00 PM

Hi BJ! Will soup mail you when the Christmas Suite is complete! Thank you for asking about it. Blessings! Happy New Year!

Bj Legros Kelley
Date: 12/30/2024 4:02:00 PM

Thank you Sam :) Well, my sweetheart and I have been married 47 years, he knows I have been writing poems forever and here I have NOT been writing...this is his prescription I guess :) He got onsite and saw how little I've done and found it alarming, lol! He is a prize :) I don't know the plan, but I suspect a date night. How wonderful that you are working on a Christmas Suite of poems. I will come over and see :)

Beryl Edmonds

Date: 12/29/2024 4:44:00 PM

All the best for the challenge BJ, if you do write 10 pens a day for 4 days you’ll definitely deserve a treat from your challenger… Beryl

Bj Legros Kelley
Date: 12/29/2024 6:09:00 PM

:) Thank you Beryl, I really am wondering how I can get ten more done today. Our son said, wow, that is hard and without inspiration?! Well, we will see if I can meet the challenge. I am sick today with a fever and so the inspiration may be how I feel right now. Ten though, um, it is a challenge to be sure!

Silent One

Date: 12/29/2024 10:41:00 AM

Wow good luck!!!

Bj Legros Kelley
Date: 12/29/2024 11:21:00 AM

Thank you Silent One, I need it!! ;)

Regina Mcintosh

Date: 12/29/2024 12:52:00 AM

Wishing you all the best with your challenge :) God bless you. Love, Gina

Bj Legros Kelley
Date: 12/29/2024 11:20:00 AM

Thank you Gina :) I am challenged ten per day, 40 altogether before New Years Day. That will be a miracle! Yesterday is done! He dropped the challenge on me at 10:30 on here, and suggested it earlier just to me around 8:00. Posted the challenge around 10:30 on site on one of my poems :) Well, I still feel the Muse is missing, but well, he has me writing :)

Tom Cunningham

Date: 12/28/2024 10:49:00 PM

Nice to see you back BJ, hope you had a lovely Christmas, best wishes for 2025. Tom PS, good luck with the 39.

Bj Legros Kelley
Date: 12/28/2024 11:13:00 PM

I have missed being here. I so hope that I can get past this dry spell! I am having fun, we'll see how I do in the next few days. My hubby is trying to break this dry 'spell'. We will see. It is rather a fun challenge and as bad as they are, I did write ten in an hour and a half/. Best wishes for you and your family in 2025 as well Tom. Thank you for your welcome back :)