You’ve warmed our feet with your belly, On cold nights near and far. Seen sights that we’ve seen, And traveled miles in our car. You’ve warned us, too, of danger, On long walks through the night, And frightened off a stranger, With the presence of your bite. The tags on your collar tinkle, As you […]
Poetry Corner: Mary Susan Gast “September in the Northern Hemisphere
In wistful September We descend From summer’s summit of light To the dreadful balance Of the precarious Equinox. From there we catch the zip-line Into the sway of night. Mary Susan Gast is a member of Benicia’s First Tuesday Poetry Group
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “Between Friends”
To say that one has never done anything wrong, May be to suggest that one has never done anything… to speak of. So bear with me, my friend, in my attempts to grow. For, if change is constant then perfection could not last More than a moment.
Poetry Corner: D.L. Lang “Sheltering in Places”
This whole city now smells like gasoline. No one knows why, and that’s obscene. Officials are investigating the scene. We’re all struck without a warning. Now we wait, sheltering in places, unable to ventilate our cozy spaces, donning air masks on our faces. Praying for better, the human race is. Its source is a still […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: My Last Chance (Prayer)
God forgive us, we are weak, the path to all the things we seek Is fraught with pitfalls and distractions, wars and human interaction Hear me now my solemn prayer, I pray for humans everywhere I’m witness to our own undoing; destiny’s cruel fate ensuing Give us strength, grant us the mind, so what I […]
Poetry Corner: Bobby Richardson “Why I Write Poetry”
I first started writing poetry for the same reason people write or keep journals. Growing up in Alabama as a kid in a family of 12, I went without a lot. I subsequently began to write my feelings down on paper, and voila, a poet was born and my first poem of many to come […]
Poetry Corner: Johanna Ely “View from the Benicia Depot”
Standing on the wooden platform of this old fashioned train depot, I remember how I once waited impatiently for trains to take me away, waited in stations as long as football stadiums, New York, Paris, Tokyo, waited eagerly to travel on trains whose wheels clicked and clacked to the edge of a new world. Now […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Far Apart, Close at Heart”
Have you ever wondered, When you’re apart, The distance of friendship, The space from your heart? Friendship may be far, But still it is near. Listen to the soul, The heart will hear. Bonds from the past, Made connections from the start. Friendship gained holds, Though now miles apart. Fate does as it will. It […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: 9/11
On every 9/11, we take pause to beckon back To mourn the loss of innocents, by cowardly attacks In hopelessness we watched aghast, as planes attacked the towers The structures burned and bent and groaned, this was their final hour First responders tried to help, they fought with all their worth Souls soared into Heaven […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Birds Asleep”
Once two boys aged eight or nine, Discovered lying upon the ground, Lovely colors, on feathers so fine, Lying there without a sound. They were side by side, Where the hunter had them laid. The boys knew they had died, And sadly looked at the sight they made. With small sticks and hands, They dug […]