Poet’s Corner

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Place of Serenity The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau Winding my way down the steep hill, the Olympic Mountains towering over the sparkling waters of Puget Sound, impart…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. A Soul Once Filled With Darkness Spring 1994, Los Angeles, California 9:00 AM, I’d just returned from the gym. I’d sat down to eat a bowl of oatmeal, before getting dressed for work. While I was standing in the shower,…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Getting Religion This child of frog and deer and stone can only trust that she is safe; this landed mermaid will not yet know whose finger strokes her face. And I, her newborn mother, must capitulate to time and wait —…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Give Me Your Tired We knew the words but we did not know what they meant. We wrote them down, tore them off sheets, let them flutter out the windows of our speeding cars. In the heat, smoke and faulty isolation,…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Agency What does it mean to be the salt of the earth? Salt is a preservative. It is used for seasoning and with healing. Salt is a helping agent. What does it mean to be the leaven? Leaven makes the bread…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group ~ ~ ~ ~ This poem is written in response to an event that occurred in Huntington Park California on Feb. 6, 2023 involving the local police department and a disabled mentally challenged local resident. Confronting a Man With No Legs…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group The Car and I It started when I was 9. It was a time when new cars came in all the colors that ice cream came in. The neighborhood got in line. My older cousin Floyd, Floyd and Frankie, owned…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Masks in the Museum of Anthropology “Which mask is your favorite?” a father asks his young son and daughter, “The raven, the bear, or Bukwus, the wildman of the woods?” The children giggle. I want to scold them but keep silent….

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group Curious About Curious about… George that rascally monkey in havoc mode played in and played out and around and about. Curiosity and that cat. “Nine” saving his life again, and again. I wonder how well cats and monkeys get along? A…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Brainstorms I allow myself brainstorms nowadays Welcome them even Go so far as to scribble them down Not sure why but I enjoy haywire thinking My unsteady hieroglyphics Whether unique left-hand printing Or prehistoric cursive scrawl Unmistakably me The ol’ noggin…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. THE FALLS They fell from the sky and it was rain. I fell from the ladder and it was disaster. My neighbor fell and a broken hip landed her in rehab. My neighbor fell and whiskey landed him in rehab. All…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group End of a Long Day The parking meter for self-pity has just expired. I fear I have no more energy left to spend being sad so I fold my wings like cards in a poker hand and fall into the sky…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group J.M.’S Apartment One evening I knocked on her door, there she stood looking cozy comfortable clad in mismatched socks, women’s boxers, stretched out t-shirt covering her to the hem of her boxers, and an oversized tweed unbutton oatmeal color sweater covering…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group Compass Rose Surrender up your idea of surrender Let the four winds blow you all asunder Your precious pieces weaving ‘tween the grasses and over the whistling canopy of trees Drift in and out of weathery mountain passes letting go of…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group Home The first trip back to Karachi after my father had passed away. Winter 2018. —- The captain says “cabin crew take your positions for landing” And the plane glides towards a smooth landing. It’s a lissome and graceful descent. How…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group Sunset Detour As I take a quiet stroll to a familiar place I make a visit to a favorite stop The day is quickly waning towards its crescendo this moment seems worth a detour Over the quiet lake, clouds erupt into…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group   Contest Ocean tides rush over beaches, covering sand, rocks, creatures, only to flow out again leaving barren rocks and sand, pulling some out with the tide in a seeming contest for the land. Creatures of the intertidal zone duck for…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group Three A.M. Sleep has abandoned me. Awake my soul, my senses, myself. Go out through darkness to those lights you left, unremembered. There they all are! Orion, Pleiades, the Big Dipper and orienting North Star! The elusive Milky Way, Jupiter, Mars!…

  Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Ex-Caliber He was a 19-year-old cowboy from Wyoming who loved to break horses as a teen fur trapped for pocket money who once spent a day shearing sheep for $1 came home his bloody hands cut to ribbons who once…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Transcendence We walk the beaches in light and rain, beckoning the tide to wash away our pain, releasing our grief to revelation and self-discovery. Ahead of us in the sand, among seaweed and driftwood, lay the remains of decayed sea life,…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Life and Death in the Back Yard The neighbor’s cat with the pure black fur noticed my movement in the kitchen and fixed his stare at me. I eased forward to get a better view of our small, oval-shaped lawn through…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group: No One Knows 1880s, western Sweden, province of Värmland. A farm with a very long name— Buvassrönningen– a very long name, but not enough hectares of land for four sons and four daughters. Buvattnet— the name of the resolute lake on…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group Catch & Release Sober in somber light our fathers stood along the river and didn’t imagine anything beyond fat trout rising, to lure voracious cutthroat and rainbow to take the stonefly or nymph from the tip of a hushing whip of…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group The Bones of David Two seven-year old boys destined to be lifelong friends, I lived as far as he was allowed to travel, he lived as far as I was allowed to travel. Driven by circumstances and survival our family ties…

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group Pseudo Tsunami There is excitement in blaring terrible news: ALERT! The children stolen away! ALERT! The silver-haired driving to the past! ALERT! ALERT! Stay away from the surging shoreline! Wild to court disaster out of a tepid life, immediately we all…