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        Poetry Corner: Blue Blood Moon

        • Kathabela Wilson
          • February 14, 2018
          • 1 comment

      POETRY CORNER

      Super Moon (Photo - Dennis Gobou).

      Super Moon (Photo – Dennis Gobou).

      – 2/14/18

      Hosted by Kathabela Wilson

      From beginning to end these poets are transformational. The lyrical magical subtle and personal ways they see the world are powerful natural lightness pervades as if their poems become wands.

      ~ Kathabela

      Blood Moon ( Photo - Mike Duffy).

      Blood Moon ( Photo – Mike Duffy).

      Mike Duffy

      winter clouds-
      i find my own
      super blue blood moon

      touched
      by the moon-
      rabbit bush on fire

      Mike Duffy is a poet adventurer artist who creates his own world of beauty from what he has at hand in cold, dramatic environments. These photos and poems from Farewell Canyon, BC.

      Ο Ο Ο

      Dennis Gobou

      the Earth’s rusty veil
      reflects off of the blue moon…
      a rare alchemy

      moonset
      of the Super Blue Moon
      Eclipse…
      the trees win

      Poet Dennis Gobou views the eclipse from his home on Saint Simons Island, GA.​ He is a wise poet that meets the world with both sensitivity and humor.

      Ο Ο Ο

      Louis Osofsky

      measuring
      the light by the warmth
      of my pen,
      this earth’s shadow
      empties the night

      Louis Osofsky writes in Sacramento, California; and with a warm embrace, moves through silence, words and life’s rhythm.

      Ο Ο Ο

      Ardelle Ray

      the blood-clot moon
      starts to drip
      a wound re-opening
      as earth’s shadow
      passes

      Ardelle Ray ​lives in Las Vegas, ​Nevada. In her view, through a window, ​”the moon went black, with a sliver the color of clotted blood.​”​

      Ο Ο Ο

      Gerry Jacobson​

      moonlight
      floods the clearing
      where I lie
      with the apple trees
      somewhere in Suffolk

      Poet and dancer Gerry Jacobson​ lives in Canberra, Australia. I love his mysterious enigmatic childlike view of the eclipse of hundred moons…

      Blood Blue Moon (Photo - Mike Duffy).

      Blood Blue Moon (Photo – Mike Duffy).

      Ο Ο Ο

      ♣ We welcome and encourage your response especially in the form of short poems. You may reply by leaving a comment below.

       

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          Kathabela Wilson is a local poet/writer/artist and musician. Her Poets Salon has become an international respected must read in the poetry world. She's the creator and host of the Pasadena-based group, “Poets on Site.”

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      1. susandiri says:
        February 17, 2018 at 1:20 pm

        lovely, dear Poets, the moon visiting us all over this planet, reflecting our hearts & minds!!

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