Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Poetry

Poet’s Corner: ‘Spring Tankas’

Spring Tankas By Ellie Bates vernal equinox daffodils forsythia medicine of hope sunlight warms our heavy hearts we deserve this change from fear gold ranunculus crowded petals like turbans sit on green stalks turn their heads in a warm breeze bow to us as we...

Poet’s Corner: ‘Greetings from the Vineyard’

Greetings from the Vineyard By Fran Schumer I’m on my island, you’re on yours on the 31st floor of building three — The Coleridge. Forgive me if I say you are the albatross around my neck as I once was around yours. You worried about...

Poet’s Corner: ‘The countdown’

The countdown By Donald Nitchie These are the days we counted down to summer, sliding sweat off upper lips with the backs of our hands. The second hand swam up its side of the clock but it wasn’t time. Summer beckoned from the end...

Poet’s Corner: ‘The fisherman’s daughter’

The fisherman's daughter By Jonathan Burke A daughter fishes with her father on the waters of the Lagoon. She wears orange bibs wool sweater and hat rubber boots and gloves as does he. They are out on the pond in the bare light of the sky. The scalloper is caught and turned in the...

Poet’s Corner: Nancy Aronie

By Nancy Aronie I look at you like you’re a crossword puzzle and I can’t get one clue How did this happen that two people so different so wrong for each other fit as if God herself used a celestial bandsaw and made...

Poet’s Corner: ‘Sunrise over Chilmark’

Sunrise over Chilmark By Valerie Sonnenthal I rise up from the warmth of flannel crisp spring morning no frost light as full as heaven but when that golden eye heats the horizon blinds through branches cracks across high blades of yellowed grass touches...

Poet’s Corner: ‘Island Natives’

Island Natives By Sam Gurney As the wind comes off the sea And up the stream-cut hills, That crisp, salty air Delivers a thorough chill. As I rest my fly upon the pool Beneath the rumbling cascade, The surface begins to open And...

Poet’s Corner: ‘Mom, I knew you’d never leave me’

Mom, I knew you’d never leave me By Nancy Slonim Aronie Sometimes when I look at my strawberry blonde cat, Bo I am convinced that she's my mother. She curls into my body When I’m on the couch My hiatal...

Chris Legge’s ‘A Whither in the Twile’

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Have you ever wondered if you have been “here” before? Do some things seem so familiar, and others odd and foreign? Have you ever wondered if someone were brave enough to stand outside of...

Poet’s Corner: ‘Coconuts’

Coconuts By Taz Strom Waves rise and fall upon soft shores of broken rock: coconuts strewn upon a carpet of stone as if thrown with abandon, a feeling of unkempt unrest upon our shore in the ombra of the moon. A breeze...

Poet’s Corner: ‘Fame’

Fame By Clark Myers Because it’s Summer the Polo store In Freeport is crowded with tourists sifting through the sale racks and the logo t-shirts and sweaters, life size cutouts of Ralph looking on, silver hair and shades. A busload of...

Poet’s Corner

Sea smiles By Nicole Jackson Spring is on the way I see my boy looking at the bay. A freezer full of fish Cooking is his last wish. Poles cleaned, lures in order Maybe he has seasonal affective disorder. His face appears...

Poet’s Corner

Hiding in plain sight By Lucas Thors Blue fabric A missing expression Breathing stale Thank circumstance A safeguard wrapped in cellophane Easy anonymity Hard to connect In a faceless fever dream Where everyone seems alien Elastics stretch Past smiles and scowls While some hope to hide Their visage...

Poet’s Corner

Obsession By Ellen Story Yes, I worry everyday about the sinkhole in my yard’s front temporal lobe. Aside this cavity that borders a meadow adjusting its own weight is a wild cherry tree, sentry yet humble. It's roots bolster a tombstone-like...

Poet’s Corner

GREENLAND By Georgia Morris When the tsunami comes the tall front sunburst windows will blast through but all that flying glass will never have time to reach the floor to the rust-colored Persian glass will flow in the wash of angry sea gone awry and...

Poet’s Corner

BEAUTY By Fan Ogilvie What do you do? Spend the day Looking at it? Shopping for it Receiving it Trying it on— Hiding it Not admitting it Covering it up Returning it Paying for it To go away— Much time Wasted On the very thing We were taught Is truth But is Keats...

Poet’s Corner

Pane By Lucas Thors What’s beyond that thin sheet? What anger can I discover? What self-delusions can I muster? Beyond that pane A window into unreality A counterfeit realm What comparisons can I make? What vicious conclusions can I draw? What malaise can I...

Points on poetry

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Poetry has always stumped me. I adore reading, and am an avid fan of fiction and nonfiction of all sorts. But poetry has remained elusive, despite my parents’ love of the art form. I...

Poet’s Corner

A Few Dreams By Nancy Slonim Aronie I dreamt my father didn’t die He was faking it Just to see how much i loved him Once he saw me cry He said just kidding (He was always a jokester) I dreamt my...

Poet’s Corner

Winter Benediction By Jeffrey Agnoli Five inches of snow by daybreak just enough to bend low the brush and pitch pine. Now a frozen rain falls into the sodden earth in long needle lines. Still the day is hardly harsh nor the season severe through all climes a warm...