<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><font size="5">That's lovely, Annie! I love the imagery and the book-related wordplay of leaflets and parchment. Nicely done!</font></div><div dir="auto"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div dir="auto"><font size="5">Miss Ruth </font></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Ann Chiappetta via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org> </div><div>Date: 8/26/22 4:13 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: 'Writers' Division Mailing List' <stylist@nfbnet.org> </div><div>Cc: Ann Chiappetta <anniecms64@gmail.com> </div><div>Subject: [Stylist] new poem Summer's Book </div><div><br></div></div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Summer’s Book</p><p class="MsoNormal">By Ann Chiappetta</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">August is </p><p class="MsoNormal">A perpetual ending</p><p class="MsoNormal">Of wilting haiku blossoms </p><p class="MsoNormal">Of Heat and drought and rain on wind chimes</p><p class="MsoNormal">Of crisp leaflets capturing autumn’s promise and </p><p class="MsoNormal"> open fields of earth’s parchment</p><p class="MsoNormal">awaiting to harvest and scribe </p><p class="MsoNormal">richness into Nature’s book with stories of Winter white.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Note: this was last weeks Writing Works Wonders writing prompt using the words August, heat, drought, and wind chimes</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Anniecms64@gmail.com">Anniecms64@gmail.com</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Summer’s Book</p><p class="MsoNormal">By Ann Chiappetta</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">August is </p><p class="MsoNormal">A perpetual ending</p><p class="MsoNormal">Of wilting haiku blossoms </p><p class="MsoNormal">Of Heat and drought and rain on wind chimes</p><p class="MsoNormal">Of crisp leaflets capturing autumn’s promise and </p><p class="MsoNormal"> open fields of earth’s parchment</p><p class="MsoNormal">awaiting to harvest and scribe </p><p class="MsoNormal">richness into Nature’s book with stories of Winter white.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align:center" align="center" class="MsoNormal">Ann M. Chiappetta, M.S.</p><p style="text-align:center" align="center" class="MsoNormal">Making Meaningful ConnectionsThrough Media </p><p class="MsoNormal">914.393.6605 USA</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Anniecms64@gmail.com">Anniecms64@gmail.com</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">All things Annie: <a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com">www.annchiappetta.com</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align:center" align="center" class="MsoNormal">Ann M. Chiappetta, M.S.</p><p style="text-align:center" align="center" class="MsoNormal">Making Meaningful ConnectionsThrough Media </p><p class="MsoNormal">914.393.6605 USA</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Anniecms64@gmail.com">Anniecms64@gmail.com</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">All things Annie: <a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com">www.annchiappetta.com</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>