Mykle LydiaLynn McClure has been writing poetry since she was a very young girl in her home state, Iowa. In 1963, she and her parents moved from Iowa to California. She returned to...view moreMykle LydiaLynn McClure has been writing poetry since she was a very young girl in her home state, Iowa. In 1963, she and her parents moved from Iowa to California. She returned to Iowa in 1967, where she married her high school sweetheart. They returned to California in 1969 and made their home in the Central Valley and then in the Upper Mojave Desert town of Ridgecrest. It was 1994, when she took a Creative Writing class at a community college in Ridgecrest, that she began to write in earnest.
She currently resides in the California foothills near a life-long friend who is just one of the women you will find in this poetry.
She continues to write, though the majority of these were poems were written between 1994 and 2004 when her father passed away. Sometimes life's greatest challenges can inspire creativity and sometimes it can block the flow.
The past six years have been years of drought, but recently there has been a slow trickle of words crying out for form. Perhaps the future will offer the opportunity of sharing more abstract and concrete thoughts with those of you who are meeting her in these pages.view less