Poetry Corner: Being in Love

POETRY CORNER

– 2/17/16

Nell dancing (Photo – Blue Rose Photography, Seattle, WA).

Joyce S. Greene

the pattern
for my wedding dress
laid out on white silk–
married thirty years
Mom and Dad are still in love

Joyce S. Greene is a tanka poetess who has contributed to many literary journals. Joyce lives in Poughkeepsie, NY, and was inspired to write this tanka by her niece, Nell, dancing in the arms of her new husband. Nell is a lucky beneficiary of her parents’ and grandparents’ long, loving marriages.

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Wedding dress (Photo – Alexis Rotella).

Paul Amoz Tan

she shrieked with laughter
as I chased her
down the hill’s gentle slope
butterflies paused to see
grownups behaving like children

Paul Amoz Tan, who lives in Malaysia says “Many years back, there was a hill behind our home. In the evenings the children will use the hill as a playground. Shrieks of laughter are heard as they play hide and seek. Now the hill is leveled for house development. My wife and I have been married for 48 years and recently this year we have been blessed with a fourth grandson, (two grandsons and two granddaughters)”.

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The flame (Photo – Peter Shefler).

Violette Rose-Jones

frost still
on the ground as we walk
husband and wife
we feel the first kicks together:
little fish of mine did your soul arrive?

Poet and artist Violette Rose-Jones, in Coff’s Harbor, New South Wales, Australia says: “Here’s an indigenous belief the soul arrives the first time you feel the baby kick. It is about our child Matty, as my husband and I walked on frosty ground in our home town”.

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