Melissa Ann Goodwin: May 2025

Saturday, May 24, 2025

May: Day Twenty-four

Memory lives on

after our loved ones are gone

always in our hearts

Thursday, May 22, 2025

May: Day Twenty-two

How brave the saplings

that forged a pathway through stone

just to glimpse the sea

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

May: Day Twenty

Pink bougainvilla

cascades over balcony

like a waterfall

Monday, May 19, 2025

May: Day Nineteen

Lotus flowers peek

through green leaves on murky pond

Silent, peaceful, still

About Melissa Ann Goodwin

About My Poetry

It wasn't until the forced isolation of the pandemic that I began to explore writing poetry with dedicated effort. To my surprise and delight, several poems that emerged from that time went on to win honors and awards in international poetry competitions throughout 2021 and 2022. A small collection of my work was a top five winner in the 2022 Oprelle Masters Poetry Competition, while individual poems earned awards and honors in the Bigger Than Me and Coming Home Competitions, The Prime 53 Poetry Competition, and the Vivian Shipley Award. In 2023, I published my first poetry chapbook, The Brook in the Woods Behind Our Old House, which is available on Amazon.