Benicia Herald

  • Front Page
  • News
    • Features
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Forum
  • The Arts
    • Poetry
  • About The Herald
  • June 16, 2025
You are here: Home / Archives for Friday Poetry Corner

Poetry Corner: Bud Light “A Double Exposure”

September 7, 2018 by Bud Light Leave a Comment

He was one of the best dressed men I ever saw; Latest cut lapel, with awe; I checked his suit, a light over plaid, of red with ochre-brown, for fad. He was superb, yet for awhile, I was perplexed. Such style. He wore the best, yet was ill-dressed. Because I never saw him smile.

Filed Under: Features, Poetry, Spotlight Tagged With: Bud Light, Friday Poetry Corner, poetry

Poetry Corner: Desmond Rutherford “Mirror in the Bog”

September 7, 2018 by Editor Leave a Comment

The susurrant music of the trees lulled me deeper into the moss-festooned forest Ladybird beetles expose mechanical wings and lift in a deafening machinery of emotion Earthworms expand and contract in an accordionic progression that, to the mole, is a scraping sandpaper shuffle Moles know moist dark movement is best, avoiding potato bugs is a […]

Filed Under: Features, Poetry, Spotlight Tagged With: desmond rutherford, Friday Poetry Corner, nature, poetry

Poetry Corner: Bobby Richardson “A Tear Drop Will Never Be Enough”

September 7, 2018 by Bobby Richardson Leave a Comment

They were not supposed to die that day They were not supposed to leave us They were not supposed to die that way Leaving America and the world to grieve them They were part of who this Country was They were what made it the “Home of the Brave”!! And when they took them away […]

Filed Under: Features, Poetry, Spotlight Tagged With: 9/11, Bobby Richardson, Friday Poetry Corner, poetry

Poetry Corner: James Garrett “To Teach”

September 7, 2018 by James M. Garrett Leave a Comment

To teach, To reach. To teach, To breach. To teach, Not preach.

Filed Under: Features, Poetry, Spotlight Tagged With: Friday Poetry Corner, James Garrett, poetry

Poetry Corner: Mary Susan Gast “Air, Earth and Fire”

September 7, 2018 by Mary Susan Gast Leave a Comment

After the wildflowers bare their fragile faces, Lacing the green meadows with mystic purples And eruptive shades of pink and orange; Before the autumn rains tumble from gray clouds Scudding low in the skies To soak the sun-crisped grasses; Between those hospitable seasons Comes the elemental scourge of fire. Sparked by dry lighting or power […]

Filed Under: Features, Poetry, Spotlight Tagged With: Friday Poetry Corner, Mary Susan Gast, poetry

Poetry Corner: Regina Sparrow “Parents Be Nice”

September 7, 2018 by Editor Leave a Comment

This is dedicated to all the kids whose caregivers are angry, addicted, crazy, ill, stressed-out, checked-out, abusive, and shrill. You keep on seeking. You can love you. I know you can make it because I did it too. You may not know me, we’ve never met, but we love you out here, please don’t forget. […]

Filed Under: Features, Poetry, Spotlight Tagged With: Friday Poetry Corner, parenting, poetry, regina sparrow

Poetry Corner: D.L. Lang “The Woodpecker’s Beat”

September 7, 2018 by D.L. Lang Leave a Comment

It is the song of the bird, the kiss of the breeze, the canopy of trees that sets my mind at ease. It is the roar of the ocean, the rustling of the leaves, the hug of solitude gives me all I need. It is the glow of the fireflies, the dust dancing in the […]

Filed Under: Features, Poetry, Spotlight Tagged With: D.L. Lang, Friday Poetry Corner, poetry

Poetry Corner: James Garrett “How?”

August 3, 2018 by James M. Garrett Leave a Comment

How, in God’s infinite wisdom, Did One get to be 75 years old? To sit and reflect, Hear stories his voice told. Once only the fall, Saved his life. Made him come back, Blessed him with a wife. That was all it took, That instant in time. Earth pulled him down, In a far distant […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Spotlight Tagged With: Friday Poetry Corner, James Garrett, poetry

Poetry Corner: Johanna Ely “Canada Geese”

August 3, 2018 by Johanna Ely Leave a Comment

I hear the end of summer in their wild honking, in the restless language of their flight. How on this early morning in late July, I have been expecting them. I visualize them landing noisily, and resting in the field of the old elementary school behind my house- at least thirty of them pecking at […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Friday Poetry Corner, johana ely, poetry

Poetry Corner: Bud Light “Treadmill”

August 3, 2018 by Bud Light Leave a Comment

A rat in a trap; A squirrel in a cage A donkey on a treadmill, turning a milstone; Going nowhere, because There’s nowhere to go They couldn’t go even if there was, because The situation won’t let them. People are very much like that. How sad about that. Too bad for them; It shouldn’t be […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Spotlight Tagged With: Bud Light, Friday Poetry Corner, poetry

Next Page »

Browse by Category

Hot Off the Press

Benicia Herald Candidate Questionnaire responses

Auction of Jerrold Turner paintings to benefit Arts Benicia

Benicia City Council appoints Interim City Manager

Benicia Firefighter tests positive for COVID-19

Benicia’s Troop 7007 adds two new Eagle Scouts to its ranks

Reader Comments

  • Peggy on Bluebird of Happiness returns
  • Oliver Greenwood on Served, and serving, proudly
  • David Batchelor on Reg Page: Memories of Benicia
  • Colin larkin on Scott Swartz named new BHS varsity football head coach
  • max kirkpatrick on Fitzgerald Field is getting a makeover
  • Tracy Fetter on Fitzgerald Field makeover may be completed by end of April
  • Michael Lagrimas on Candidate Spotlight: EDB Chair Lionel Largaespada taking another shot at council seat

Popular Articles

Ace Hardware owner: We may move

Do Benicians want tar-sands oil brought here?

Dennis Lund: George Zimmerman’s ‘Oxbow Incident’

Jerome Page: It’s not inequality, it’s envy!

Science with the odor of oil

The good guys win

Copyright © 2025 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in