Category: Nature poetry

Earth Day Warning

He wanted to heal her broken heart, hang lace in her window Give her a greenhouse rose, the unnaturally perfect orchid Fragrant spring to fill her house, But he made toxic cocktails at the bar Laid skulls of thalidomide babies Whale bone and relics from Dachau at her door. Mid-spring layers of acid ice and snow […]

PoetsWest @ Green Lake Public Library, Seattle May 12th 2018. 4 – 5:30pm

  Where Green Lake Branch Room Location Mary Alice Cooley Meeting Room Audience Adults Language English Summary PoetsWest Poetry Reading:  4 – 5:30 pm Second Saturday of each month. Open mic always included. Description On Saturday, May 12th 2018 featuring  David Horowitz—Jayne Marek Notes Library events and programs are free and everyone is welcome. Registration […]

A Truth You May Have Forgotten

There is a moment before the sound the Great Om, Before Siva turned on one foot Before Krishna was blue and Tara green, Before the making of Lucifer, the heavenly war The gravity of heaven and the drifting fire of hell Before the holy breath blew into Man Before Adam’s dream of Eve Before Cain […]

cónocht an earraigh

cónocht an earraigh * *Irish for Spring Equinox Like a girl in a coma waking in bed the land slowly regains her memory of swollen rain cloud cloak of mist folded on rowan, alder and wych elm Knowing the smoldering heart insists swallows dip in sweeps overhead renewing with twig and dirt in beaks the […]

PoetsWest #73:KSER 90.7 FM Monthly Program: Monday 04/02/ 2018 6:00 p.m. (PST)

April Is for Poetry: (29.04 minutes) Poets Nazim Hikmet poem 6.21 (Ed Mast) Crosswords in Morning 1.32 Len Tews Even the Birds 0.57 Sarah Singer For Love of Sunday 0.26 Connie Walle The Beauty of Apples 1.04 Rayn Roberts Atheist in Spring 1.28 Len Tews  Red Clover 2.27 Victory Schouten Grandpa 1.48 Len Tews Greatness…2.21 […]