I saw you standing There Waiting At the bus Station Should I Just drive On through Wave from My Heart We are through… Or Slow Down And Take In Your Face Your Way Of Standing Lost Slightly Askew In This World Abandoned By Anyone You Lent Faith To Your birthday Was the Same as mine […]
Poetry Corner: Peter Bray “Love Poem”
I thought about her beauty like a Bougainvillea with thorns. I thought about her beauty like a matador facing horns. I thought about her beauty and I’ll tell ya this: I’ll deal with all of that after one more kiss. Peter Bray is a member of the First Tuesday Poetry group. This poem was an […]
Poetry Corner: Bruce Moody “Love Song”
I hear other names for You – The Inviolable One, God, Allah, Wakantanka, Higher Power, The Ineffable. But why bother, when You call to me by no name at all and I come. Neither of us have a word for each other save Us. And even that is nobody’s business but Ours. So let’s forget […]
Poetry Corner: Lawrence DiCostanzo “I Married a Cro-Magnon Woman”
Even though you wear petite, I should have known. The way you hold your head, the focused movement, thrift in speech — All were clues. When you muscled the case of wine into the trunk while I was calling, “Wait! Wait!” When you dug up the whole garden with a rusty shovel. When you dragged […]
Poetry Corner: Charles McCauley “Grandma’s Vision”
She was blind In those long gone days of easy before I grew hard into my boots I would watch her stare as she creaked and hummed in the old country rocking chair at the warmth of the early morning sun Sometimes her index finger slowly moved across her lips like a metronome as we […]
Poetry Corner: Sandra Anfang “Patching Holes”
I kneel at the edge of my partner’s longing a tub of Fix-all in one hand a spatula in the other. I move along the stairwell feeling for fissures in the drywall as a doctor palpates flesh, a squirrel searches out holes to ply with acorns. It’s easy to fill a lover’s vacuoles to spread […]
Love is back: Annual love poetry contest returns for 14th year
It’s February, and love is in the air. Come Feb. 19, it will also be in poetic verse and rhythm at the Benicia Historical Museum for the annual Benicia Love Poetry Contest. The Love Poetry Contest was founded by Benicia’s first Poet Laureate Joel Fallon in 2004, before the city had a poet laureate program. […]
Deadline for 2017 Benicia Love Poetry Contest announced
It’s time to submit that special love poem to the 2017 Benicia Love Poetry Contest! But why should I submit?! 1. This year, the prize money has been doubled! The first place winner will be awarded $100. 2. If you are one of the winners, your poem will be published in the next Benicia First […]
Poetry Corner: “Love, When it Came” by Frances Jackson-Patrick
Love, when it came came late springing forth from tide’s retreat into my tired eyes then silken-like slipped o’er my breasts my shoulders and my thighs a shimmering dress of forgotten sighs. A suppleness replaced the gaunt of aging limbs light of foot and lovely I became (love’s sleight of hand the consequence) in fading […]
Johanna Ely becomes Benicia’s sixth poet laureate
After months of searching, a new poet laureate for the city of Benicia has been named. For the next two years, Johanna Ely will be the city’s sixth poet laureate, succeeding Don Peery. The office of the poet laureate was established by Benicia Public Library’s Board of Trustees in 2005 to place an emphasis […]