CARPE VELO - 10th Anniversary Celebration!

CARPE VELO celebrates its 10th Anniversary today! It began with the series called "POEM of the WEEK!", but shortly after the first year it became apparent maintaining the high frequency of weekly posts caused the creativity to suffer -- hence, the change to "POEM of the MONTH!" Much has been learned by the art of the written word throughout this journey. I hope you've enjoyed the progression and the variety of styles.

Just a little over a year ago prose was introduced with a form of short-story called flash fiction -- see "Clarity" posted May, 2017. (Be on the alert for a new short story of greater length to be posted tomorrow, entitled "The Doctor Is In".

The focused theme of CYCLING POEMS has been a favorite list with the title poem "Carpe Velo" as well as the AWARD WINNING & PUBLISHED POEMS list; and more recently added, please see the BRUTAL HONESTY list, which includes poems inspired by the brutal honesty of the Psalms. (Lists are found on the left and right columns of the page.) And please be certain to click the "MAP of LIFE: The Bible" link where you'll find life restoring pages of Hope.

With tens of thousands of page views by people from all over the world, it is with great humility to thank you for visiting! I hope you've enjoyed the ride thus far.

To celebrate, I believe it's appropriate to include the link of the first poem posted 10 years ago -- the Ina Coolbrith Circle award winning poem, "Deed (a pantoum)".

Here's to another 10 years!

Thank you!
Dave Douglas