Category: Poetry

Elevate 0

Elevate

Poem There is a beauty in sadness. It can teach us how to gain tranquility in just ourselves. Takes us back to the basics. Makes us see what hasn’t been seen before. Urges us...

haibun series 1

The Smuggs Chronicle, Finis

Haibun Departure Day: September 1, 2013 We pack the car by 10:15 and arrive at guest services shortly after. Frankie kisses the key cards goodbye. After we settle accounts, and get his free ice...

Priscilla Westra, poem about devotion and love 0

The Man Who Can

Poem You run a bath for my return I take out the bins I forget half of all I yearned You remember little things You have the eye, the finer touch I engage in...

haibun series 1

The Smuggs Chronicle, Part Fourteen

Haibun Fourteenth Day: August 31, 2013 We sit on the swing overlooking Rum Runner’s Hideaway. The mountain reservoir sits still in the late morning. We await the opening hour when Mira notices that the...

short poem about winter 1

Mind Garden

Poem A day of cold, And I’m chilled to my bones. Every rafter of my snow-shocked brain Tinkles with pinnacles of frost: Glass too cold to touch, Each lobe a frosty forest Except the...

haibun series 0

The Smuggs Chronicle, Part Thirteen

Haibun Thirteenth Day: August 30, 2013 Mira and I make our last trip to Stowe this season. We eat a sumptuous homemade salad before beginning our walk along the Stowe Path. The sun scorches...

poem about not giving up on love 0

Blurred Visions

Poem   Keep going my dear, I don’t know why it’s worth it But don’t get tired Of trying to find a reason Times when your tears They don’t stop It’s hard to see...

poem about light and darkness 1

As The Light Goes Down

Poem As the light goes down, shades are passing by, faces once so close are nothing but a night. Faces once so true turned into a tree of lies… Faces once so loved –...

catharsis poem 0

Catharsis

Poem Let’s make things and shake things like changeling rearranging the pavement. Say strange things to neighbours who think we are strangers. Built walls with our words, let us break ’em. Let us not...

poem about energy 0

Crystal

Poem I want to know what it’s like To feel cool and clean Fresh and small To see without a history To be a mirror A crystal ball To feed all that’s alive Bringing...

haibun about family memories 0

The Smuggs Chronicle, Part Twelve

Haibun Twelfth Day: August 29, 2013 The day’s weather wears “a thousand faces.” Patches of blue sky and sun follow gray skies and rain. The day screams, “Pursue indoor activities!” We listen and head...

poem about reflecting on one's life 0

It’s Day 2 of Open Enrollment

Poem I sit in a chair and face the corner of a cubicle for eight hours a day since it’s enrollment time for benefits It’s noon and we’re already 200 calls deep Enroll my...