Poetry Corner: Going to the Dogs

POETRY CORNER

Orchard Nighthawk (Photo – BG Callahan).

– 2/07/18

Hosted by Kathabela Wilson

Poets have always lead the way in expressing the discontent and the temperament of their time. Our very creative and expressive poets today display disappointment and concern for current developments, as well as wry humor. All of us can listen, evaluate and have our own ways with words, assimilating and responding to our challenging political climate. Hoping that our poetic community of friendship and creativity will provide a healing environment as well as strong perspective from which we can see and comment on our current state.

~ Kathabela

State of the DisUnion moon (Photo – BG Callahan).

BG Callahan​

On night of State of the DisUnion
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Super Moon
A Marvel hero?
SuperDuperMoon
Blue and red
Blood and Blue
Supercolors
VS one another
oppositional coloration
Will it be Blue and Grey
or Blue and Blood
In our streets
this time around

SuperDuper Bloody Blue Moon
Will you preside over
our national meltdown?
Become a symbol on Flags?
Libturds versus Base.
Hated, each by each

Poet and artist BG Callahan from Altadena, CA. She is a keen observer of the current situation, as well as a lover of nature, music, art, history and cultural myths . Her art and poetry honestly and passionately express her feelings and thoughts. Her expressive, mysterious images well reflect those timeless qualities in our lives.

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4 facelifts darken 2 Elves Orchard Nighthawk (Photo – BG Callahan).

Michele L. Harvey​

the year opens
with the president’s cohorts
loudly yapping…
In chinatown, dragons dance
for the year of the dog

Poet Michele L. Harvey is a New York based self-employed painter and poet. ​As a poet-painter steeped in the ways of nature and as an ordinary being who depends on the air, water, soil and life on the planet, Michele L. Harvey often includes the environment in her poetry. Here she confronts the year’s beginning with concern. As she says, “To not do so would be neglecting the essential purpose” of her art. She lives ​winters​ in New York City and​ summers​ in Hamilton, NY.

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Crown Lake in salvia (Photo – BG Callahan).

Karla Decker

sun rises sets
the Labrador stretches
and yawns
every year
belongs to dogs

Poet Karla Decker lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. She moved there in 1963 to stay one year, and was so happy she stayed.​ She views the current scene with a wry humor and and wide perspective.​

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