from bear creek's assistant editor,
Kitty Kali!...
poet Connie Jordan Green, Lenoir City, Tennessee...
A full moon rises
beyond my cottage window-- Fog over the lake
I read by its light Canada geese wade ashore--
March wends her slow way
on the quiet lake
paddling through mountain shadows--
my red canoe
poet Dennis Rhodes, Naples, Florida...
The full worm moon calls
all earthworms to the surface
of a Spring-drenched world
be very gentle
you hold my voice in your hands
please keep it alive
poet Pawel Markiewicz, Poland
early spring and thaw
I write summer poems
with romantic lines
poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, Longmont, Colorado...
In Memoriam
poet D. W. Golden, Tallassee, Alabama...
MORNING LINE
just above silence I brush up against myself shadow to shadow
poet Mary Oliver (1935-20190)
HUMILITY
Poems arrive ready to begin.
Poets are only the transportation.
poet Wesley (Wes) D. Sims, Oak Ridge, Tennessee...
Heron Haiku Proposal
A great blue heron He, bold, proposes
slowly stalks lake's shallow edge She, eyes aglow, supposes.
teaching me patience. License disposes.
poet George Held, New York, New York...
see you in a moment...
ayaz daryl nielsen
you can mail your poetry to:
noble assistant editors
Frosty and Tama, stating,
"and belly rubs!"
A full moon rises
beyond my cottage window-- Fog over the lake
I read by its light Canada geese wade ashore--
March wends her slow way
on the quiet lake
paddling through mountain shadows--
my red canoe
poet Dennis Rhodes, Naples, Florida...
The full worm moon calls
all earthworms to the surface
of a Spring-drenched world
be very gentle
you hold my voice in your hands
please keep it alive
poet Pawel Markiewicz, Poland
early spring and thaw
I write summer poems
with romantic lines
poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, Longmont, Colorado...
Migrations #1
José Angel Alfano Solana
We crossed over the border
I won’t say how
and what can I say of
freezing desert nights
black sky blazing stars
then searing, burning sun
tearing into flesh
relentless, relentless
the walking, and fear
then- - - - - - -running, running
as sand clouds appear
against the far sky
running, running- - -and then
I lost you and Juan and
the girl running, running
and falling face down
breathing sand and
dreaming, dreaming of naranjas and
water, rain falling and
phantoms unfurling like giant
sails across the desert floor
and the pounding, pounding of
ocean waves in my ears
and then - - - - -the face, the face
of El Senõr
artist Ed Markowski, Chicago, Illinois...
poet D. W. Golden, Tallassee, Alabama...
MORNING LINE
just above silence I brush up against myself shadow to shadow
poet Mary Oliver (1935-20190)
HUMILITY
Poems arrive ready to begin.
Poets are only the transportation.
poet Wesley (Wes) D. Sims, Oak Ridge, Tennessee...
Heron Haiku Proposal
A great blue heron He, bold, proposes
slowly stalks lake's shallow edge She, eyes aglow, supposes.
teaching me patience. License disposes.
poet George Held, New York, New York...
Dressed in his black undertaker’s suit,
The Secretary of State, first in his class
at West Point, visits the Western Wall
with ally Netanyahu, then blithely tells
the press that as a Christian, first in his class,
he believes God might well have ordained
that President T***p be the angel
of Israel’s deliverance, a modern Esther
on this Purim 2019.
Pompey Magnus, Pompeo’s antecedent,
Had three Triumphs in his day; now here’s
Another one, at the Western Wall at the expense
of the wall between Church and State, descended
from Roger Williams and T. Jefferson,
whose descendant T***p desires above all
a wall along the Mexican border, the modern
version of Sicily, which Pompey the Great
conquered in the name of the Republic.
Will our Pompeo the Great, first in his class,
bring down, like Joshua at Jericho, the wall
between State and Church? Who is this god
for whom Pompeo speaks with such confidence?
Who is this Caesar T***p, who like Emperor
Sulla, sends his consul abroad to make
policy without consent of the Senate? And
will he avoid, like Pompey, the scathing
nickname, earned for causing carnage, “carnifex”*?
* “the butcher"
George Held, a frequent contributor to TheNewVerse.News and other periodicals, has a new poetry book, Second Sense, forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada.
one hundred years, our lawrence Ferlinghetti...
one hundred years, our lawrence Ferlinghetti...
see you in a moment...
ayaz daryl nielsen
you can mail your poetry to:
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80502
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within the US, that's ok, too
(again, include postal address)
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(again, include postal address)
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