Floods, earthquakes, and fire, tornadoes and storms conspire to bear down on humanity, possible revenge for its treatment of Mother Earth. The stench of destruction moves through air spreading its message of despair across neighborhoods and continents. Perplexed people in tears gazing to heaven asking why, eyes blinded to the deeper tragedy. Know that this […]
Poetry Corner: Carol Pearlman “The Revolution in Cuba”
I stepped out of my shoes took off my skirt and shirt and laid them next to the bent antenna on the dusty, broken TV set that faced the wall of peeling faded wallpaper. A four-pronged plug lay belly up on the floor like a dead cockroach. He sat on the bed and with his […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “You Were There”
I awoke in the morning and you were there, With sleep-filled eyes and tousled hair. At work all day the job I share, Goes easily by because you are there. To hurry home to be with you, With a smile of love shining through. The two best loves in the world to share. When our […]
Poetry Corner: Deborah Silverman “Love and Climate Change”
Love didn’t rush through us like a drenching storm riding the jet stream. It hinted its arrival on a fresh, ordinary day – a day of no cognizance of weather or love, when a Chevy was for cruising and schmoozing and catching the latest flick at the drive-in. Love drizzled lightly into awareness sharing burgers […]
Poetry Corner: Cathy Dana “When She Comes to Me”
She comes to me in my dreams sometimes. Like last night— Jim and I traveling on foot like refugees, or pilgrims amidst so many others searching, hoping to find—what? We weren’t home, weren’t on familiar turf, there were open-air markets, tents and camps. I was standing on the path, a dirt road. Out of the […]
Poetry Corner: D.L. Lang “Love Poetry Capital Blockade”
On the way to the love poetry awards at the Historical Museum today, we were met at the railroad crossing by a one car police blockade. We circled around Industrial Way with its refinery fumes, pipelines, and towering knotted highways. Every road that we attempted greeted us with large fences, big trees, or dead end […]
Photo: All you need is love– and poetry
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: The Loot of All Evil (Makes the World Go ‘Round)
Save your money Stack it up And make it reach the sky Rake it in and Bake it up Into a money pie Bend a little Spend a little Not too much Here’s why Money isn’t everything Until you need to buy Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Bus Ride Meeting”
Bus traveling down the road. Filled are the seats with a varied load. Moving home at the evening rush hour. Faces relaxed, happy, or dour. Two women talked of the day. Lost in the words that each would say. Behind them a rider known by one in the past, Parted by space and times growing […]
Poetry Corner: Ranjit Gill “Aisle of Death”
As I walk by the aisle of death and look at the body parts that are left Chopped, put up for sale. I see the local favorites: cows, chickens, and pigs. I wonder if they cried at their time of death.