Your beauty is amazing an artwork don’t need to makeup for anything! I wish you’d let me keep staring. But you call me crazy. I know I’m a freethinker a lover of art loving life isn’t really that hard. I see beauty in breathing Don’t need a god. You are a goddess. Your beauty is […]
Poetry Corner: Mary Susan Gast “The Season’s Greetings”
This is the season Of riotous angels deranging the skies With songs of peace and goodwill. This is the season When past and present swirl Like snowflakes blown across time’s boundaries. This is the season When little children lead us Into mystery and clarity. This is the season Of dogged hope That love among us […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Footlocker”
There’s thirty years in that footlocker— All of them as a Marine. It holds a life of pride And tells of places seen. There’s a shell casing Filled with smooth black sand From a bloody fight On a small Pacific island. He had lied of his age Short months before To become a Marine And […]
Poetry Corner: Katrina Monroe “Walking the Dog at the Benicia Pier”
The Christmas grand dame stands at the end of First Street, proudly displaying her rainbow jewelry sparkling in the sunshine, and surveying the barking seals who sing situations, and bask in the joyfulness of everyday life, while soaring seagulls an egrets suddenly swoop to snatch their supper from the Bay Area’s bounty. The waves brush […]
The A Cappella Handyman: At the Edge of Creation
At the Edge of Creation I once worked with a man at the age of creation and he was good to work with, for he spoke in short bursts of excitement as though what he had said before the conjunction was aged by the sentence’s end. ©Peter Bray 1976 All rights reserved A Short Serenade […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason Countdown to Christmas”: Penelope Persimmon
Penelope Persimmon, had to summon all her strength To fetch the cardboard box out from the shed She set it by the Christmas tree, still unadorned and bare As memories began to fill her head Voices from the box called out, and whispered in her ear They said, “We are the story of your […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Benny the Bear (Teddy Bear that is) Brooklyn, New York, December 1931…
I’m a bear, I’m called Benny, and I’m slightly used Lemme tell youse a tale, ya won’t read in the news I tell it to people, on Christmas ya see It could happen to youse, ‘cause it happened to me A banker from Brooklyn whose first name was Sid Went and bought me at Macy’s, […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Tin Roof Rain”
The rain is hitting on the tin roof. We’re all safe and warm inside. The dog snuggled up close by the bed, And I have my arm around you. Your fingers are running through my hair. You hear the words again, I’ve often said, “Hold me tight and love me. Breathe softly on my chest […]
Poetry Corner: Johanna Ely “Snowtown”
It’s a little town that comes to life only once a year— just three cheerful buildings that look like they’re made of gingerbread and white icing, set down carefully along the edge of a fireplace mantle. The miniature snow men and snow women stroll between the bakery and the post office, their arms filled with […]
Poetry Corner: Ranjit Gill “Real-Life Beauty (IRL)”
Beauty in my arms Da Vinci couldn’t paint a better picture The artwork that I hold smiles unlike the snotty b**** Mona Lisa. In my arms lies Heaven Lucky number Seven? Our minds magically intertwine and I find you on a love boat of quotes on an ocean of emotion Here, drink this potion! I […]