Category Archives: 30 for 30 Poetry Celebration

This poem is available as a PDF to preserve formatting. Please click on the link: DREAM OF THE MARION-APPRECIATION PARTY Marion Cohen dedicates this poem to all small-press poets and writers; it’s from an actual recent dream. Her 27th book … Continue reading →

The Runner’s Cloudburst Read me a story, The Beginner’s Guide to Cross Country Running. Yes, but first show me your heart. It’s gotta have Love scrawled on it, Laugh carved in it, Desire and Determination in a pistols-at-dawn Disagreement over … Continue reading →

Eyes It was time for the eyes to have it. To caress each and everything in the universe.  Through binoculars, telescopes.  Microscopes, kaleidoscopes. Let colors create different worlds, from birds in feathered nests to microbes hatching in water.  The stars … Continue reading →

April is gone and, with it, the 30 for 30 poetry event. It’s now time to vote for your favorite poem. If you have not had a chance to read the poems posted during April, please take some time to … Continue reading →

Haibun: Time-out Tonight’s dinner at Chuck-E-Cheese’s is  a mad medley of color and cacophony. We enter with a child and get our wrists stamped with a snail  tattoo. We  order our pizzas and drinks while the little girl goes to … Continue reading →

Moving Into Moonlight At first I wanted to move elsewhere. The moon was so cliche, a place for poets to languidly pen verse and arrive at endings of poems. But I didn’t have anywhere else to go. The city was … Continue reading →

A Newspaper at Brookside Gardens A newspaper left on the park bench opened to the obits, a woman sits next to the dead whose lives are remembered sometimes next to crosses or Stars of David. A newspaper on the bench … Continue reading →

A Cry of Nature After Edvard Munch, Der Schrei der Natur I am not you. My orange sun ascends against blue beneath the gold underside of clouds. In this air I walk with two friends. In this air we feel … Continue reading →

Humility as Self-Defense Who would want to be God? A sane person would avoid the responsibility. A good mother who kills thousands. Kind and great and ruthless. Required to be omniscient: to bear so much pain, one must be heartless … Continue reading →