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...
Poet’s Corner
By Richard Fligor
On my own, floating free,
An orchestra of one,
Parked at the beach before sunrise, moving words around.
Work and play, no difference.
What’s wrong with me is what’s right.
The plot of the day all mixed...
Poet’s Corner
Fireplace
By Lucas Thors
When the frozen shoreline shivers
And the oak throws down its leaves
I sit in front my fireplace
And wait for spring’s soft embrace
When electric heaters buzz and whir
And scarves are the accessory
I sit in...
Poet’s Corner
Zebra cakes
By Nicole Jackson
With A zebra named Zain on the front
It’s a meatless animal worth the hunt
You know those cakes
Little Debbie makes
Tasting much like a processed dream
Moist yellow cake layered with crème
White frosting with...
Poet’s Corner
Six Turkeys
By Fan Ogilvie
Wild and free, that is we,
past our prime, before all daisies.
Red sun on our gobbles —
neither cork screws, nor screw tops
can bottle up the rusty gate hinge
squawks of our recent delight.
Fan...
Poet’s Corner
Christine Burke
Wrong password
Try again
Incorrect password
Try again
Reset password
Refer to help page
Anxious
Shut out
What’s going on
On the other side
Of the veil?
Consult the wizard
Roger in Mumbai
Roger calms
Rational
Step by step
Two more clicks
And I’ll re-enter
But do I want to?
Off the...
Poet’s Corner
December Holly
By Liz Splittgerber
One merry waxen Holly
Bejeweled with grace
One rising morning sun
Showing her night-chilled face
Two oak leaves shivering
Among Lambs Ear & Sassafras
Two ripe Cotoneaster berries
Asleep in the arms of Vinca &
grass
Just a few...
Poet’s Corner
Alone
By Nicole Jackson
Thoughts,
Dancing,
Music,
Imagination,
make me giddy.
My best friend is me.
Alone is when,
I’m free to just be.
Nicole Jackson is a stablehand at White Stone Equestrian and a designer for the MV Times. She often writes about...
Poet’s Corner
Jól
By Lucas Thors
Set the Jól log upon the scalding hearth
and sing praise to the All-Father for giving his eye
so we could see.
Take shelter in the great hall
for midwinter winds scream across the land
and Aegir...
Poet’s Corner
Her Destruction
From Wallace Stevens’ ‘Poetry is a Destructive Force’
Submitted by Fan Ogilvie
Just to go the short distance to
the fish store or was it the hardware
store or the birdseed dog food plant
store should she take...
Poet’s Corner
November Leafing
By Ellen Story
neighbor's raked piles
escape onto the road
I scuffle, shuffle
kick oak leaves
some colored
like old honey
some stuck together
almost crunchy
breezes welcome
a few from
an unloaded maple
to dance,
ochre filtered sunlight
colors my white hair
warms me
a slim beam
showcases
an old...
Poet’s Corner
Scary Times
By Alida O’Loughlin
Who will keep us safe?
Safe from want, from crime, from war
Who will keep us safe?
Who will keep us safe:
The ones who lie about the facts,=
Who use vile words
And demonize the Other?
Who...
Poet’s Corner
Is Everything Fodder
By Valerie Sonnenthal
why dribble and drab
why is not the question
whose underhand is lower
how low can this election go
out one window a woman welded steel railing
out another window a man pinned and repeatedly...
Poet’s Corner
Springer
By Lucas Thors
There’s this special path
Never covered in leaf litter
Where furry feet constantly compress
So many memories
Arlo springs
Through briars and bright flowers
Black curly ears become airborne
So many acres to soar.
Sometimes we make a game
Out of...
Poet’s Corner
A Poem for the Corner Spot
By Nicole Jackson
Tried and true
Holding the place
Close to page two
Hard returns
All have their turns
A special style
Giving ample room
Submissions are great
Even when late
Given a skip
A designer here in a flip
Ready...
Poet’s Corner
I don’t like pink
By Donna Foster
I don’t like pink.
It’s not my color. Never has been. Particularly light pink.
Some people look good in pink.
Some people love pink.
Pink is the favorite color of one man I...
Poet’s Corner
Equinox
By Ellie Bates
the arc of sun crosses the equator
day and night are equal length
in all parts of the world
today’s news tells it differently
dark and light are not equal
more dark for immigrants
seeking asylum
herded from border...
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Islanders
By Donald Nitchie
Anyone who doesn’t want to leave.
Orlando, sure, New England Aquarium,
school vacations to Sanibel, Mt. Snow
and if you can swing it, Aspen or Bora Bora
but if you can’t, the Town & Beach Motel
in...
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Vineyard Herreshoff Cup
By Don McLagan
We come to compete for the Cup
From Chappy to the trail of Moshup.
Menemsha, V-Haven, and E-town
Contend in the Pond and the Sound.
We duel it out in H12s
For a trophy that...
Poet’s Corner
Climate Change
By Vi Larsen
A bottle floats helplessly into a mass of hungry plastic bobbing through the endless sea
A polar bear stumbles weakly over the frozen tundra and collapses, its final icy breaths shakely exit
A...