Counting Candles

POETRY CORNER

– 7/01/15

Downtown Pasadena (Photo – Stevie Strang).

Briony James

born of ranchos
wild scrub foothills
rising gilded domes
crowns
our city of roses

Briony James came to Altadena seven years back and can’t get enough of the beauty of the foothills and mountains, the urban bustle of Old Pasadena and all the arts that cram the city to the brim! She is occasionally seen haunting the galleries at the USC Pacific Asia Museum where she is a docent.

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Stroll along the beach (Photo – Stevie Strang).

Stevie Strang

stroll on the beach
your weathered hand
in mine
wasn’t it just yesterday
we were twenty-one

Stevie Strang lives in the Southern California beach town of Laguna Niguel with her Dolls, a dog named Emmy, and her husband of many moons. She is a Doll Conservator by trade, loves to garden, takes long walks on the beach, and is now living out her dream of writing stories and poems to​ ​go with her lifelong love of photography.

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Rainbow over Pasadena (Photo – Stevie Strang).

Susan Delphine Delaney

next year
they tell me
I will need
a fire permit
for my birthday cake

Susan Delphine Delaney is a psychiatrist from Plano Texas who DOES need a fire permit for her birthday cake.

*Photos by Stevie Strang.

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