To Write To write is to grasp at the greatest of fantasies and to hold them firmly in the hand. To dream the greatest of dreams and to capture them in words. To seize upon the most illusive of thoughts, to harness them for a moment, and then in time, let them too run free. […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Must Be Love
I met someone And once again It hit me like A freight filled train It filled my heart And stabbed my brain I’m all mixed up And half insane My tears are falling Like the rain Into this flute Filled with champagne Be right or wrong I can’t abstain It must be love I feel […]
Poetry Corner: Johanna Ely “Serendipity”
We didn’t plan to leave town- thought the clouds might burn off in time, but then decided to drive south towards the band of light above the mountain. We drove as far as we could in thirty minutes, until we saw patches of blue sky and parked the car in a shopping center lot, in […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Youth”
Callous as a youth. Often seen without a smile. It was ignorance, Not attitude, or style. No one to guide him. No one to help him see. Formed through moments, The man who came to be. Barriers formed in the mind, While growing older. Events and thoughts, Placed in a folder. Few ever learned, The […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “To Grasp the Moment”
Time is everything It never dies– It never lived- Its solo hero Is eternity. It is limitless. A silent pool, collecting Drop after drop. It is unendingness. It never seems To have begun. BUT FOR ME TIME IS NOW. To those who stop To peer at galaxies Their limits Beyond the scope of all our […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Bostonian
I’ve spent some time in Boston Massachusetts is 1st class Red Sox, Celtics, Patriots The beans will give you gas It took some time to understand The way they speak their words I marvel at the way they treat Nouns, adjectives and verbs The way that they say “Peabody” Sounds like it’s “P’b’dee” “Car” is […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “Alone”
He sighs bending down, pensively searching for leftovers nobody else wanted He ponders the future starting out at the old south side four flat He worries sbout paying his rent pensively searching the soil for a lucky penny He moves on rickety unsure legs down stone pocked slabs, toward the corner grocery And buys the […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Love One Another”
Love one another, Feel the joy. Love conquers all, For both girl and boy. Start with a smile, A handshake of two. See what kindness, And affection, can do. Love shared by all, Each a sister and brother. Hold tight and long, Love one another.
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: To the Young Men
Throughout time the young men go, to fight the old men’s war To charge and fight and kill and die, but not to ask what for A rite of passage gauntlet game, to see which ones survive To live out life just wondering why, that they are still alive Whittled warriors, bodies broken, torn apart […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “Bittersweet”
We lay asleep protected by the shroud of night The prelude to a frenzied life That precedes life’s frantic race To each new day. It was quiet there And we felt We could race each other To the moon. And as we slept, Protected by the shroud of night There in the east A hand-held […]