POETRY CORNER
– 4/20/16
Beginnings (L) Endings (R), two artworks by Stevie Strang.
(For Jeff)
Stevie Strang
I will survive
the shipwreck
and calla lilies
will bloom
once again
Stevie Strang is a poet and photographer living in the beach town of Laguna Niguel, CA. Dedicating her time to easing her mother’s later years, and sensitive to the trials we all encounter, she maintains her creative vitality and strong artistry. Stevie writes this poem as a gift for her son, Jeff. The trials of enduring the loss of dear friends to sudden catastrophe are so heartbreaking.
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In the Woods (Photo – Tom Clausen).
Tom Clausen
in the woods
the way things end up
quietly
Tom Clausen is a poet who walks each day in the Ithaca woods near his home. He collects the small and dramatic changes with his camera and small poems.
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Fallen Tree (Photo – Tom Clausen).
Giselle Maya
fallen
the old tree
still breathing
with caterpillars
and mossmountain columbines
taken with roots from the forest
replanted
in stone-lined garden circle
of perennial delight
Giselle Maya lives in Provence and loves writing poems and prose in the Japanese genre. She writes daily in her journals: a garden journal with notes about surprises in the garden.
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Alexis Rotella
Haiga poem (tanka) and artwork by Alexis Rotella.
Artist, poet and dreamer Alexis Rotella, lives in Arnold, Maryland. She influences and inspires many with her dynamic and authentic voice.
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What a beautiful selection of work by all these wonderful poet/artists. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Pat and Susan for feeling the depth of this. It was such a beautiful experience to feel it take shape, the poets and artists words and images joining and honoring our beginnings and endings… in a “perennial” “circle”!
Words – the human accompaniment to nature’s beauty!
lovely poetry & art, dear Poets, upon this transitory world!