Once in a while, if you are lucky, you’ll encounter a poem that will take you to an enchanted place where words can do anything and for a brief time the outside world is held in suspension. I just read this poem by Sandra Beasley and have still not come back to earth. Thank you, […]
Everyone in me is a bird. Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife, she survives all man has done.The eye of a little god, four cornered.The bird’s fire-fangled feathers dangle down. We wear the mask that grins and lies.I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong.Love has gone and left me and
Hi All, My poem “Telescope” (a limerick, actually, inspired by a quote from Alice in Wonderland) was just published in the latest issue of NewMyths. In the same issue, they also included from their archives my poem “The Yellow Snake,” inspired by the snake in The Little Prince. You can read both of them here:
As I read the headlines, I was reminded of this little poem from my collection Shopping Cart Dreams (Kelsay Books). I think it speaks to what is happening to our so-called democracy right now. https://kelsaybooks.com/products/shopping-cart-dreams
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I write a poem and wonderwill anyone read and remember it,and why I should carewhen I won’t be thereto hear it sung. I cannot promise it a long life.The only thing I can do is breathe into itall the truth that is in meso it can live on its own. Or I could just forget
Your perfect leavesshine back at meas if freshly washedby a spring rainand make mewant to believein youto touch your skinand feel the pulseof your artfulunblemished lifeon displayin a tidy white potyou will never outgrowI do believeyou would thrivein my sunless bathroom—a perpetual plantwho never needswatering or fussingand would not careif I live or die First
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It was the third time I had come to hear him read at the Tucson Festival of Books. As always, Billy Collins was charming and funny as he shared his poems and reflections on the art of poetry. For good reason he’s been called the People’s Poet. I suspect many in the packed auditorium were
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In light of the fact that Forever 21 has just declared bankruptcy, here’s the poem I wrote inspired by the store. It’s part of my fourth collection Shopping Cart Dreams published by Kelsay Books. All the dressesin the store lookmade for people whonever have to worryif they’ll fit. To be twenty-one again,with firm bodyand all
My prose poem “Plucked in a Far-off Land” was just published in NewMyths Online Magazine. You can read it here: https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-issue-70/issue-70-stories/plucked-in-a-far-off-land
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