Maple leaf (Photo – Marietta McGregor).
POETRY CORNER
– 12/22/15
Hosted by Kathabela Wilson
Marietta McGregor
first step…
one red leaf clings
to the water bowl
Marietta McGregor, is a science journalist, poet and photographer who lives in Canberra, Australia. She just returned from a trip to Japan. She says “In a back street in Takayama, Japan where I was traveling for a photography workshop, I came across a brimming granite bowl beneath the autumn maples. A leaf was about to swirl away, and I thought of how we all must begin our journeys”.
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Roary Williams
Live
for all you’re worth
Slumber
with eternity
Rise like you’re the sun
Roary Williams, a poet who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, says “I wrote this a long time ago, and it has become my daily mantra. I use words to celebrate life and love, the only things worth writing about. I look for the deeper meaning in things, and try to write them down as my mind’s eye sees them”.
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Stellar’s Jay and Titmouse birds (Photo – Jean Sudbury).
Erwin J. Endress
I love the poets
It is comforting to know that they are here
Telling the world what a flower is for,
and what a bird is for, and what morning means.
Poets are brave to say such things.
It is a very brave thing
When a man admits his loves.
Erwin J. Endress (1920 – 2001) was the father of Kathabela, and her earliest and greatest poetic influence. This is an excerpt from a poem of his (1941). He was a feature writer and reporter for the Staten Island Advance, and the Harrisburg Patriot News, as well as a lifelong poet. He was also known as Ed, and his affectionate name was Ken, from his role in a Brooklyn 1930’s production of the play “Smilin’ Through”.
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