Reflections on Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

Fire and Water (Photo – Robert Johnston, Dunedin, New Zealand).

POETRY CORNER↓

– 3/18/15

Robert Johnston

at the end of summer
I spotted a rogue eel
in the little pond
and for some days worried
about the goldfish

would the eel
as they slept at night
sneak up
and eat them?
did they sleep?

now
however
as autumn advances
the fish it seems
continue below the surface

as before
in cold fire
slipping through
their world
or floating motionless

Robert Johnston lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. He’s friends with Kathabela Wilson and sundry other poets, photographers, scholars and artists. Following the maxim that one is known by one’s friends, he assumes he is rather like them. He wonders if they are running late, too.

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Earth and Air (Photo – Robert Johnston, Dunedin, New Zealand).

Louis Osofsky

it’s only away
from the fishing net
tug
that I feel
this sacred horizon of the ripple

Louis Osofsky lives in Sacramento, CA. When asked what he does, he quotes Anaïs Nin: “Each of our friends is a world within us”, “and what if happiness were a creative activity, like writing a poem?”

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Sarbjit Singh

ant colony …
between sky and earth
only nothingness
while we gasp
we become one

Sarbjit Singh is a poet living in Toronto, Canada. He migrated to Toronto in 1994 from Punjab, India.

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