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To mark her 100th year, Joyce Johnson's book, Lifetime Memories in Verse, has been released by Publisher Gary Drury and is now available for purchase on Amazon.com.

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Soup Member Marks 100 Years with a New Book

Blog Posted:2/26/2018 3:15:00 PM

It is hard to believe that the Soup's own Joyce Johnson did not begin writing poetry until after her 80th birthday. This year, as she prepares to celebrate her 100th birthday in July, Joyce has a new book of poetry. Appropriately titled Lifetime Memories in Verse, the book reflects on family members, friends and special events that have brought joy to her life.

You will find a collection of poems that speak of her love for nature, especially flowers and animals Joyce sees in the area surrounding her home in the state of Washington. A selection of spiritual poems is especially uplifting and provides a unique view of man's place in the universe from one who has had many years to reflect.

Congratulations to Soup member Joyce Johnson on her latest achievement. Lifetime Memories in Verse can be found on Amazon at:

https://www.amazon.com/Lifetime-Memories-Verse-Joyce-Johnson/dp/1981640762?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ2F6RDUSIYCWQMFQ&tag=sa-b2c-new-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1981640762

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Connie
Marcum Wong

Date: 3/7/2018 9:57:00 PM

Thank you for letting us know Carolyn. Joyce is a favorite poet and her book will arrive before St. Patrick's Day! What a wonderful achievement and way to celebrate a fantastic milestone birthday! Congratulations! Much love and birthday wishes to you Joyce. I just have to have a copy of your book I can hold in my hands and put on my book shelf. I love your poetry! Hugs and Blessings, Connie xxoo

Anne-Lise
Andresen

Date: 3/5/2018 12:38:00 PM

- A big day .... 100 years - Congratulations Joyce, enjoy your day with family and friends :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Len
Gasun

Date: 3/2/2018 3:50:00 PM

A hearty Congratulations from me too, our dear friend Joyce! And advance Happy Birthday! Good luck, Good health, God Bless and all my best wishes! Hugs!

Sunlite
Wanter

Date: 3/2/2018 12:33:00 PM

Congratulations from me, too! I bought the book on my kindle and am enchanted. I am very elderly and feel I'm reading from a friend who shares, which encourages me to do more "memory" poems.

Sandra
Haight

Date: 2/28/2018 9:36:00 AM

Thank you, Carolyn, for letting us know about Joyce Johnson's wonderful accomplishment in publishing her book and in enjoying such a long and fruitful life to be able to discover her talent so late in life and being able to achieve her goals as a published poet! My heartfelt congratulations to you, Joyce, on your book and upcoming 100th Birthday! Hugs, Sandra

Carolyn
Devonshire

Date: 2/27/2018 3:22:00 PM

For those outside the U.S. who are concerned about shipping costs, Joyce just told me she thinks there is an ebook for sale!

Francine Roberts
Date: 2/28/2018 9:50:00 PM

its available through kindle as an e-book ( not through kobo, darn it) I checked it out and for those in Canada , Amazon.ca is also carrying this book

Charmaine
Chircop

Date: 2/27/2018 1:28:00 PM

Happy 100th Birthday!!! Hip Hip Hooray...God Bless this Lady with many more years....Congratulations On the publishing of your book.Lets make a soup party.Hey Sweet Carolyn,thanks for sharing this news.

Robert A.
Dufresne

Date: 2/26/2018 6:33:00 PM

Hi Joyce, I just heard about your wonderful accomplishment. I haven't been on the soup for quite a while so I'm glad Carolyn filled me in. I've always enjoyed your poetry, your comments and your personality. Congratulations to you. Am happy for you, Joyce. God bless you. Bob Dufresne

Eve
Roper

Date: 2/26/2018 6:18:00 PM

Amazing :) and big congratulations ! Thank you for sharing Carolyn.. there is hope for some of us...

Carrie
Richards

Date: 2/26/2018 5:57:00 PM

What a wonderful way to mark this important birthday! Our dear Joyce is part of the foundation of the early days of Poetry Soup, and I'm so happy to help celebrate her accomplishments! Thank you for the incredible update. She has a beautiful and poetic soul......as do you, Carolyn. My love and best to both of you :)

Jack
Horne

Date: 2/26/2018 4:01:00 PM

Lovely blog, Carolyn, & well done indeed, Joyce. Like Andrea, I was amazed to hear Joyce didn't start writing until she was 80. Will check it out to see if I can get it as a PDF

Carolyn Devonshire
Date: 2/26/2018 4:02:00 PM

Let me know if you have any luck finding a PDF version, Jack. I think it is only available in print.

Carolyn
Devonshire

Date: 2/26/2018 3:37:00 PM

I will be posting a contest for poetic tributes to Joyce in honor of her 100th birthday. Hundreds of friends and family members will be attending the birthday party!

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 2/26/2018 3:18:00 PM

I went to see the cover of the book. It looks so nice, Carolyn. Thanks for doing this review for our friend Joyce. I was so surprised to hear she did not even start writing poems before age 80. MY goodness. To be so talented and have started it so late in life! Congrats to you, Joyce on the publication of your book!

Carolyn Devonshire
Date: 2/26/2018 3:34:00 PM

Yes, she is amazing! Thank you for your sweet comment, Andrea.

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3/31/2021	From Icarus To Goldilocks	Free verse	science,space,
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3/26/2021	Chicken of the Sea Tableau	Verse	fish,sea,
3/24/2021	A Token Gesture	Rhyme	appreciation,light,
3/22/2021	Missing Chris	Free verse	friendship,loss,
3/19/2021	Dreamscapes	Free verse	anxiety,dream,introspecti
3/12/2021	In the Glory of Morning	Imagism	flower,
3/9/2021	Before the Colors Fade	Free verse	history,poetess,
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PoemTitle	Form	Categories
A Winter In Yosemite	Tanka	nature,places,
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Learning To Ride..Footle-Mania	Light Verse	funny,life
'remember To Smile'	Free verse	faith,hopelove,
She Waits.	Free verse	animals,death,friendship,
Living To Serve	Ballade	devotion
The Price of Freedom	Free verse	deathwomen,women,
Star Gazing	Iambic Pentameter	space
Cautious Walker	Free verse	adventure,allegory
Three Blind Men and a Horse	Quatrain
Seeing Things	Light Verse	funnygrandmother,
Letting Go	Rhyme	lost lovelove,
Myth of Mother Earth	Rhyme	fantasy,life,nature,myth,
Captain Breckenridge	Free verse	imagination,
Hopeful Trio	Tanka	nature
Cowboys Cry Too	Acrostic	angst,cowboy-western,imag
Shapeshifter	Acrostic	introspection
Mine Shadow	Free verse	sea,
The Future Is Now	Monoku	hope,life,nature
My Dog, Benbow	Verse	animalsdog,dog,time,
Fable of the Fall	Rhyme	adventure,hope,imaginatio
Save Us, Please	Haiku	nature
Petty	Light Verse	funnyme,me,
Precipice of a Lost Innocence	Narrative	childhood,mother,
Imagination	I do not know?	adventure,fantasy,friends
Madness	Monorhyme	angst
Adopted	Rhyme	childhoodchildren,heart,c
Epitaph For a Common Man	Epitaph	dedication,life
Crop Circles From the Sky	Rhyme	funnymen,men,planet,
When I Grow Up	Free verse	childhood,
Maiden Voyage	Rhyme	history,life,loss,sea
'tender Invite - Wilma - Ric	Dodoitsu	love
Maiden Voyage " the Rescue "	Rhyme	history,life,loss,sea
Words	Light Verse	introspection,on writing
To Read	I do not know?	lovelove,i love you,
Growing Prose -My Passion-	Free verse	on writing and words,pass
The Worry Dolls	Quatrain	faith,happiness,hope,insp
My Poems	Free verse	hope,on writing and words
The Farewell Performance	Free verse	lifefilm,
Future Dreams	Rhyme	imagination,science ficti
I Had a Little Nut Tree	Light Verse	funny,parody
Keepin Up	Rhyme	funnynight,me,night,time,
Stick To His Rules, He Not Human Actually Rules	Free verse	natural disasters
Sos	Senryu	nostalgia,
Cease Fire	Rhyme	funny
In Deep Sorrow	Rhyme	sadpain,me,
The Loving Time	I do not know?	animals,life,love,motherm
Gift of the Sea	Rhyme	nature,sea,sportsfishing,
No Cancer In Heaven	Sijo	lossfamily,family,
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Life's Void	Narrative	imagination,introspection
Friend Within Hear Me	Rhyme	angst,confusion,friendshi
Nikan	Sonnet	dedication,native america
Animal Court	I do not know?	animals,funnytiger,
Battle of the Seasons	Alliteration	seasons
Every Time We Fall	Rhyme	angst,introspection,lost
Doing Time In Kimo	Kimo	funny,
The One That Got Away	Narrative	childhood,family,nostalgi
Alien Invasion	Rhyme	science fiction
Small Habitats...Repost	Rhyme	natureearth,
War Vets Dream	Rhyme	children,warchildren,war,
Coming of Age	Narrative	adventure,brother,childho
A Different Game	Rhyme	introspection,life,people
The Cake You Showed Me	Ode	introspection
Probing the Unconscious Space	Free verse	imagination,introspection
Welcome Carolyn	Couplet	friendship
End Game	Free verse	love
Welcome Dear Carolyn	Couplet	friendship
Left Handed Lover	Free verse	love
::A Psalm To Jehovah::	Free verse	inspirational,thank you,u
My Old Black and White	Rhyme	nostalgiaold,friend,old,
Barbed Wire	Rhyme	history
I Do	Free verse	love,
The Ghost Dance	Narrative	history,inspirational,nat
Rain On the River	Free verse	life,nature,peace
A Feast For My Eyes	Light Verse	faith,inspirational,life,
The Man Who Fell*	Rhyme	faithmay,truth,perspectiv
Coffee Not Tea For Andrea,Carolyn and Linda-Marie	Couplet	friendship
Sailing the Seas In a Pecan Tree	Rhyme	adventure,old,
A Springtime Song	Sonnet	naturebird,bird,
Our Time	Fibonacci	lost love,love,
Exerpts From Hitler's Diary 1941	Prose Poetry	funnywar,crazy,june,war,
Moonbow	Haiku	nature,space
Am I Who I Am	Quatrain	socialwoman,mirror,mornin
Grains	Free verse	philosophy
Where Now a Butterfly Sits	Tanka	daughter,loss,lost love,n
Bernadette and Juliet	I do not know?	political
Who's the Pretzel	Limerick	funny
Memories	Senryu	imagination
The Cleverness of That Young Traveler	Burlesque	life,nature,nostalgia,peo
Three Hundred and Fifty Horses	Rhyme	animals,funny,imagination
Infant Poet	Tanka	childhood
Cold Night Rain	Tetractys	imagination
Tanka 13	Tanka	emotions,
At Gettysburg	Sonnet	america,conflict,memorial
Empty	Cinquain	depression,
The Sofa and It's Tales	Rhyme	funny
Fgm	Verse	abuse,sad,violence,