Entering Out of State Poetry Contests

Watercolor Legacy

by Patricia Tiffany Morris

“Watercolor Legacy” - A poem dripping with hope finds a home in the newest yearly anthology, Sandcutters 2024, by the Arizona State by Arizona State Poetry Society published on Dec 18, 2024.

Have you ever dreamed about having your writing published? I never did. I never even thought about it. I was completely content to squirrel away my writing in personal journals and give handwritten copies to two of my closest friends from high school.

I shared hand written duplicates with my grandparents and gifted embellished versions to my family at Christmas and birthdays. But I never considered someone would purchase my writing.

After I married, I share some of my poetry with my husband. He wrote poems and puns and spoke in rhyme, but we cherished our notes and words with one another throughout our marriage. I kept many sticky notes with short quips and clever love notes he wrote to me over the years.

But when I began entering contests in around 2019, and started a career in later life, I was delighted to find awards, heartfelt emails from readers and judges, and I became a published poet in my 60s after a lifetime of scribbling poetic words and forms for my own enjoyment and healing.

Here is my newest published poem with first publication rights to the Arizona Poetry Society. I hope you enjoy “Watercolor Legacy” from a sixty-something poet as I ponder the legacy I might leave in my old age.

Love always, because of Jesus Christ,

Patricia