Micropoems
Tide Pool
Waves breaking on rocks, |
feeding mussels, limpets, and |
snails; polishing stone. |
F.I. Goldhaber's words capture people, places, and politics with a photographer's eye and a poet's soul. As a reporter, editor, business writer, and marketing communications consultant, they produced news stories, feature articles, editorial columns, and reviews for newspapers, corporations, governments, and non-profits in five states. Now paper, electronic, plastic, and audio magazines, books, newspapers, calendars, broadsides, and street signs display their poetry, fiction, and essays. More than 230 of their poems appear in almost 80 publications. Left Fork press will publish their fifth book of poetry, What Color is Your Privilege?, in September. http://www.goldhaber.net/
Discovery
I was unaware. |
Cherry blossoms have no scent. |
Falling, they whisper. |
Robert McHugh is a native of Baltimore, Maryland and a former U.S.A.F. navigator during WWII, and a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War. He is a retired sales and marketing consultant with a B.A. from Princeton and an M.B.A. from NYU. He has been a GrandPals senior reading to Kindergarteners at five different elementary schools in Hopewell-Lawrenceville-Princeton, New Jersey area for the last five years, and is a poet and memoirist.
Concertmaster
when a red wolf sings |
long leaf pines lift rosined bows- |
music of old moons |
manacled to tidal seas |
pulses in my blood and bones |
Elizabeth Spencer Spragins is a fiber artist, writer, and poet who taught in North Carolina community colleges for more than a decade before returning to her home state of Virginia. Her work has been published extensively in Europe, Asia, and North America. She is the author of three original poetry collections: Waltzing With Water and With No Bridle for the Breeze (Shanti Arts Publishing) and The Language of Bones: American Journeys Through Bardic Verse (Kelsay Books).
FLYING DREAMS
Lonely raven high |
barking caws clothesline still air |
talons grasp phone wire |
do you envy my shod feet? |
trade me wings so I can soar. |
Elise Kazanjian's poems have appeared in Fog And Light: San Francisco Through The Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here; Poets Eleven; and New Millenium. She has worked as a pawnbroker, as Foreign Editor, CCTV, Beijing, China; and at Sunset Magazine. She is Co-Judge, Prose Poem, Soul-Making Literary Competition.
