Thursday, June 21, 2018
Happy Summer!
Wishing everyone a happy first day of summer. Please see poem below this entry, if you haven't already done so. Will catch up with everyone later on today. RP
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018
POEM
*SUMMER SOLSTICE western breezes freely caress my face glorious feels the balm of midnight sun pearls of sand scatter soft beneath my feet azure seas sing serene before my eyes air sweet and pure cleanses new my soul; begone, oh frosted ruin, white ice of Wintertide welcome, life primordial, seed of...
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Saturday, June 16, 2018
POEM
AN IMPROMPTU POEM My soul feels a weight darkened with heaviness, a sorrow deep and profound fills me, knowing the agony and anguish t hat you have suffered, I feel the flaring burn, a fire of poetry and pros e trapped, unspoken, ever dancing lightly in your gentle heart while on my distant shore of...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Poem - Edit from The Vault
NETHER TIME Sometimes when I least expect it from a golden glimmer in my mind it touches feelings lost within my soul in that space of almost-time somewhere beyond a thought yet not quite to a wish it comes to me and I remember... you. Sometimes when I least expect it hidden in the sacred hollows of...
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Sunday, June 10, 2018
Blog Entry
For those who may wonder where the poets have gone, one answer came to me, personally, in the form of a question, from a friend, who said that (in general) nobody reads poetry. " When's the last time you bought a*book of poetry?" she asked. Uhh, gotta say, "I don't know; like, decades, maybe?"...
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Friday, June 8, 2018
Poem - A Big Hello from Longo-Geremia!
Joe (Longo-Geremia), one of my cousins, is still with us, in spirit anyway, and he sends greetings. He's on hospice care and doing as well as he can do. He does miss his friends here, and writing his poetry. He still has a poetic soul. And now, after a little rest, I'm ba-a-a-ck in town. Missed you...
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Saturday, June 2, 2018
Poem
CONFLAGRATION Shall I write a free verse to the fire, an ode to falling ash, a sonnet ro the choking smoke, quatrains quartered to the fiercest flames, an epic tale of Hell's Inferno, (ah, but that's been done), perhaps a tanka on the tinder tall; and might a couplet dare repeat the glowing flare of...
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
Poem
VERNAL when the broom blooms sweet and the scent of heather falls lightly in the mist and shoots of newborn barley corn wave verdant from the distance in fields far away on these halcyon days when sunglow warms with ease like hidden trees a circle lost of solitary standing stones when crisp the...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
POEM
Now, with a little editing and line breaks: PRIMO There is a mourning deep abiding in my soul, now wrenched and aching, wasted tears shed with hopeless grief in knowing deep and dark is felt your pain; I reach my tear-stained hand across the skies of yesterday, when light and love touched warm your...
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Poem, Now Edited Version Included
BECAUSE I FELT LIKE WRITING IT... (An example of "night writing" as per BigV's post.) Raw, unedited. Untitled there is a mourning deep abiding in my soul now wrenched and aching wasted tears shed in hopeless grief knowing deep and dark is your pain I reach my tear-stained hand across the skies of...
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