The wind shifted today We get a break from the smoke of 32 thousand acres of forest burning and maybe plastic and other toxics too When the fire started the sun turned red Liz looked up and called it a Chinese Lantern as we drove north along the freeway Not knowing what was happening between […]
Poetry Corner: Carol Gieg “Mirror Image”
(This poem is dedicated to Johanna Ely, Benicia’s sixth poet laureate who completed her term at the end of June.) How very much we’ve been enriched, Through you as poet laureate, this past two years. So like the hummingbird to which you are drawn, A mirror image in so many ways. Drawing forth sustenance as […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Evening Flight”
An evening wind is blowing, Softly pushing at the leaves. Above, a lone plane flies on through the night. I picture you seated by a window. The fragrance of your perfume envelopes me, And I wish that you were home with me tonight. Wish that I could hold you again, As I hear the sound […]
Poetry Corner: Nina Serrano “The Night After the 4th of July- A Haiku”
No rockets red glare Firecrackers quieted Could hear crickets sing
Poetry Corner: Thomas Stanton “A Benicia Poem”
…train once ran to it biggest ships in the world leathered tethered busted and full tied to it gold in a drugstore teeth to the skeins rest and repose daughters of the light men of blue and bold poems here poems about here too fairly democratic duck bones turquoise gusts seagull and guts odes to […]
Poetry Corner: Ranjit Gill “Unfinished Walking Books”
We are unfinished walking books being interviewed by other stars. We are who we are. Well, at least we are who we are thus far. Constantly changing! Thoughts rearranging, archiving and updating. I’m not who I was yesterday. Tomorrow will never come. I’m forever stuck …in the moment!
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “The Photo”
A photo carried many miles, Warmed by one of your quiet smiles. Its soiled surface wrinkled with age, Like a favorite book on the very first page. On stormy seas and fevered shores, The picture seen in my hands was yours. Comforting on days both long and hard, This tracing etched on a paper card. […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Shopping Carts
People pushing shopping carts, down all the aisles for miles Stacking all their merchandise, into imposing piles Heading for the checkout line, express or otherwise Then to the car to drive back home, and back and forth; time flies People pushing shopping carts, no groceries inside No money in their pockets, and no place they […]
Poetry Corner: Mary Susan Gast “Fire Haze”
Dawn came heavy-lidded, Puffy-eyed with smoke, The sapphire sky tarred with ash, The light an anxious yellowed gray.
Poetry Corner: Ranjit Gill “Time to Get High”
For some, to be in love must be a fantasy but not for me. It’s reality. You smoke and drink I get high off love. F*** your useless drugs! I’m in love with life, every moment and every breath. I won’t give up ‘til my last breath! I might as well keep on going until […]