Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
23 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: below, burn the tongue, dripping juices, glow, hungry holes that hang and blow, I'm as hungry as a fang
I’m as hungry as a fang
dripping juices that hang
ready to burn the tongue below
I know you know how drops can blow
a hole clear through like bites
that melt the bumps and glow like lights
hungry holes that hang and blow
and bite and glow like lights below
my fangs.
22 Jul 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: frizztext, gypsy plucking guitar, Marlin Brando, on the move, upbeat
gypsy
plucking
on the move
on the move
plucking
gypsy
21 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: adorned, apple-core, complicated, James Laughlin, plain speech compressed to brevity, poetry, simple statement, Some People Think, that will do
Some People Think
that poetry should be adorned
or complicated
I’m not so sure
I think I’ll take
the simple statement
in plain speech compressed to brevity
I think that will do
all I want to do.
“Some People Think” by James Laughlin from The Collected Poems of James Laughlin. © New Directions, 2014. Reprinted with permission.
20 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: abundance included a death of his own choosing, curled against my legs, curve of body curled against my legs, enough, he purred, he turned again, long-stroked, my old cat, nests of pillow and blanket, Robin Chapman
Enough
by Robin Chapman
There is always enough.
My old cat of long years, who
stayed all the months of his dying,
though, made sick by food,
he refused to eat, till, long-stroked,
he turned again to accept
another piece of dry catfood
or spoonful of meat, a little water,
another day through which
he purred, small engine
losing heat—I made him nests
of pillow and blanket, a curve of body
where he curled against my legs,
and when the time came, he slipped out
a loose door into the cold world
whose abundance included
the death of his choosing.
“Enough” by Robin Chapman from Abundance. © Cider Press, 2009. Reprinted with permission.
20 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: a happy life, Italy, Katrina Vandenberg, my Grandmother in Italy, red as Verona roofs, roses and verbena, Santa Marguerita, yellow flowers, Yellow roses
I Meet My Grandmother in Italy
by Katrina Vandenberg
I find her where I least expect her,
Santa Marguerita, with yellow roses
in her hair. She laughs, deep
in the arms of that American GI,
her hair rolled like Hepburn’s, her lipstick
red as tiled Verona roofs. Then I remember
the Saturday before she died, the way
we stopped at a greenhouse and she said,
I’ll take for my granddaughter all
the plants you have with yellow flowers,
ignoring my protests until the Pontiac
was heaped with roses and verbena,
with lemon gladiola perfume I could gather
in my hands. She said, Take them
all; you need to have a happy life.
“I Meet My Grandmother in Italy” by Katrina Vandenberg from Atlas. © Milkweed Editions, 2004. Reprinted with permission.
19 Jul 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: Good Mornings, Good Nights, kindly looks, smile wrinkles, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child, Sweet Honey in the Rock, the five year old on the iPnone getting her selfie of her and Dad
This is the Owen that Annika HOLDS
She deletes another.
The five year old knows the iPhone camera
and her Dad
his kindly looks
smile wrinkles
Good Nights
Good Mornings.
Please enjoy this music from the Sweet Honey In the Rock Sisters
18 Jul 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: flourished calligraphy, Highlands Brotherhood, individual preferences, moving to music, nurtures fragile memories, quiet, stimulates appetites, succulent food, sunny glow, tender respect
Bob at the Highlands
The Highlands
nurtures fragile memories;
stimulates appetites
for succulent food;
cleans your room;
keeps a quiet
sunny glow about;
tenderly respects
individual preferences.
What more is needed?
Moving to music:
flourished calligraphy!
17 Jul 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: FrizzText plays guitar, Paul Simon's Bridge Over Troubled Water
FrizzTextPlaysGuitar
16 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: a word that feels good in my mouth, lavish, lemony, luscious, lusty, succulent
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luscious
is
a
word
that feels
good in my mouth
lemony succulent luscious
lavish lusty luscious!
15 Jul 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: art of the East, clean, Higuro Tsukamoto, light, Medicine of the East, Music if the East, simple, the Zen Look, Website of the East
japanese zen tones
Art of the East
clean
simple
light
Medicine of the east
clean
simple
light
Music of the East
clean
simple
light
Website of the East
clean
simple
light
Higuro Tsukamoto.com
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 