Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Starbucks Windbag She chatters on her cellphone Natters, blusters, shouts Her anguish and her anger She loudly spews and spouts It’s washed across her tabletop Splashed across her shoes Overflows the coffee shop As she blurts her blues …
Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. My Melancholy Lover (A ghazal inspired by Youtube’s autoplay) Snow is afraid of heat and of time—but let’s rewind. I wrapped myself, head to toe, pretended to be fine—but let’s rewind. Soft guitar strings stir delicate microphones to sing….
My Edmonds News is pleased to present the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. MENDING How you spit and slick the thread And twist the knot into the end, Dip and catch the loop you made Like a swallow diving through a hoop Then bind the edges up into a row…
Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Water On that late afternoon summer day my sister and I dropped our clothes onto the dock and dove in our skinny bodies brown from a summer sun that would always be there at a lake so quiet we could…
Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Nature’s Gift The view has been the same for decades More than 30 years from my backyard deck alone Wetlands stretch across the valley Several square miles surrounded by country hillsides A single road along the north border carries visitors to the…
My Edmonds News is pleased to present the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. My View From my island I see the village low, fog settled down like an unfinished painting. Fog lifts, bright revealing mountains iced with snow. a backdrop glorious…complete. Silver ribbons remain in the calm…
Here’s the latest submission of poetry from the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Rejection The same stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. Psalm 118:22 The great American poet was gravely ill. Confined to home, he was game enough for an interview. As I was ushered into his august presence, I noticed letterhead…
My Edmonds News is pleased to present the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Many Places to Cry I have many places to cry in the vast memory of generations passed there is a genetic impression an inescapable prodding an unavoidable moment of tears a remembrance the shadowed darkness…
My Edmonds News is pleased to present the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Yoga, spirituality and cooking are related in that all are, or can be, forms of practice. Words can blur the boundaries between them and reach for common ground and light. Yoga in the Faith Kitchen Enter the…
My Edmonds News is pleased to present the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. The Dharma (on listening via YouTube to Yo-Yo Ma in May, 2020) Today I am here on this planet to listen My enervated ears to the sound of the cello Every breath slowing to match the luxurious…
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My Edmonds News is pleased to present the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. The Cult of Domesticity for my mom Flour double-sifted, hush after hush all part of the secret recipe of my Mensa mother who baked us pies, and kept her mind busy with anagrams and number games after…
Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Night Sheep We listened to them night after night from our bed, the fumbling on the stairs, the muddle of steps at the landing, the soft brush of wool against dark walls. The small flock that inhabited the night halls stayed to…
Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Transmission Questions Could the breath of my neighbor hold A tiny glossy globe with the infant virus Curled in it like a fetus shrimp of illness Waving wands as it bobs in its bubble Across the vast six feet between us? Perhaps…
The latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Skagit Beauty The sunshine enticed me out to play this morning. Mother Nature is showing off, she wants to be admired and photographed. With adventurer’s anticipation, I pack cameras, notebooks, sunscreen, and drive north to the flats. Skagit Beauty is modeling centerfolds of…
Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group Then and Now The blizzard swept in when I was 8 years old, covering streets and sidewalks and paralyzing the city Snow was deep and overwhelming and beautiful We could hardly wait to play in this inviting sugar white world Along…
The latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Borderline Hoarder A borderline hoarder? That’s what I may be All throwing away stuff’s too painful for me Those boxes of photos? I love every one Plus thousands of pics on my aging cellphone Old apple crates jammed full of prized…
The latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. The Lake Intuitive images of truth from out of the liquid eye are writ in stagnant brown when scuttling winds are shy or lush voluptuous blue erotic as a lover’s sigh or red on twilight orange where the blood syllables fly. The poet…
Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Homeward Once there was a way to get back homeward… ~ Lennon-McCartney, Golden Slumbers You stand on the street in front of a house no longer yours. Through the window, you see the table where you sat at supper while your…
Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. January cold, wet gray days short days long nights snow and ice frozen ground crisp, cold air mountain winds birds huddling at a feeder seeking warmth in the trees promises new growth small green shoots tiny signs…
Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Passengers When we exchanged the horn of warning For the horn preceding us (in those railcars Lugged behind, a wake of tiny rooms in rows), We gave away our pining for afar. We boarded the announcement of our dream Arriving in chords…
My Edmonds News presents the latest installment of Poet’s Corner from the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. A Boy’s Guide to Relativity Before I could tell time all the hours were measured in light and shadow and everything was a sundial, even I. Before I understood the meaning…
Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. November Breeze The hummingbird alit on the tip top point of the swaying fir tree She looked like a Christmas ornament shiny and showy on her perch Maple leaves pirouetted around her spinning down to blanket the ground…
The latest submissions for Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Fall Colors Autumn is a time of freedom, a time to step out of the box, a time for trees to stand up and be noticed, a time to disregard subtleties, a time to change nature’s social order! a…
Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Pie Lovers’ Recipe If you love me, plant a rose for me And if you think you’ll love me for a long, long time Plant an apple tree. ~Malvina Reynolds Only those without the love of pie can understand: There…
Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Arising In a vast field, pinwheels spin in glory at dawn — or maybe they are sunflowers, these bright starbursts arising this morning to shine and sing a wind caressed song No matter In a swoosh of terrestrial breath their…
