Photo by Yaroslav Shuraev on Pexels.com Skyward mist alwaysthwarts my backyard view despitemy northern addressAurora overthe horizon, visiblejust behind these clouds *Generally haikus are untitled or referenced by the first line, but since I'm posting this online, I thought a title would make things simpler. I hope you enjoyed the poem!*If you’d like to read … Continue reading POEM: “Auroras”
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POEM: “The Newer April Fools”
Photo by Antonio Friedemann on Pexels.com The Cuyahoga County Public Library system posts a daily poem by an Ohio poet each day during the month of April for National Poetry Month. Today also happens to be April Fool’s Day, and the anniversary of my father’s funeral (in 2016). He was a jokester his entire life … Continue reading POEM: “The Newer April Fools”
CURRENT EVENTS: BOOKS READ IN 2023
Photo by Polina Zimmerman on Pexels.com Happy New Year! Once a year, my local library hosts a raffle; each patron gets one entry per fifty books read. All you need to do is fill out a form listing the books you’ve read for the past year. I’ve aspired to two entries for many years now, … Continue reading CURRENT EVENTS: BOOKS READ IN 2023
POEM: “Bertha Lived: 1871-1924”
“Bertha lived: 1871-1924” --by Cat Russell dark eyes pull me close across the years between us, downturned lips speak wordlessly: you have a story to tell. your pristine black-and-white captures how pretty you were with brown-bunned hair pulled up above your shirt’s high collar, within the pale oval of your face your eyes light up … Continue reading POEM: “Bertha Lived: 1871-1924”
POEM: “there’s no such thing as ordinary”
Photo by Cleyton Ewerton on Pexels.com “there’s no such thing as ordinary” my hair serpentining in the wind like an orgy of snakes above Medusa’s sparking eyes the smell of petrichor and manure--a perfume born by storm clouds in a silver-etched sky Neil Gaiman’s voice sketches London Underground’s unknown imagination roams roads other than the … Continue reading POEM: “there’s no such thing as ordinary”
POEM: “moth tears”
Photo by Captures of mine on Pexels.com “moth tears” featherlight white moths with open wings prey upon the massive bovine’s bright eye pale hearts circle one large brown iris points dip into its deep chocolate depth impatient for distress, they probe its tenderness feast upon her pain: a delicacy of salt tears lachrymose hunters disguised … Continue reading POEM: “moth tears”
FOUND POEM: “The Art”
<text of above poem> “The Art” every morning/ the day broke I/ boldly/ spoke I/ open/ the door Never before that night/ my own power/ I could scarcely/ contain I/ open/ the door dream of/ secret deeds black as pitch/ I/ could not see kept pushing/ on # *The above found poem was created using … Continue reading FOUND POEM: “The Art”
FOUND POETRY: “Our Art”
<text of above poem> “Our Art” defines /circuitous pathways to find a place of one’s own journeys through time and place in images and words that give voice to /realities adapting to a new world from where /stories began draw upon /memories and /narratives research /meaning books /will illuminate each /story the space that images … Continue reading FOUND POETRY: “Our Art”
POEM: “Mona Lisa Survives”
Photo by Christie Photography on Pexels.com “Mona Lisa Survives” lovely lady, beneath your midnight veil, no one suspects the trials you have endured doused in acid, stoned by man, you withstood the brandished blade without a single scratch though those attacks prompted the glass that parts you from us now. still, ugly souls assault you … Continue reading POEM: “Mona Lisa Survives”
POEM: “sunflowers and soup”
Sunflower in the dark shade by eberhard grossgasteiger is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 “sunflowers and soup” rain does not touch these blooms dried brightly, yet somehow sad deprived of sun within hallowed walls beneath thin glass that sunless shines only with the flash of a bulb their Warhol-esque protest a mockery of his work to … Continue reading POEM: “sunflowers and soup”