POETRY CORNER
– 7/20/16
♣ 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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Assemblage: watercolor, foil, and found objects by Kathabela Wilson.
Briony James
jigsaw puzzle life
edges worn down
the pieces
float downstream
to unknown seas
Briony James and her partner are about to have a big adventure moving across the country from Altadena, CA to Charleston, SC. The puzzle of living creates changes that ebb and flow into our psyche.
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Illusion by Chris Wesley.
matsukaze
a sepia photograph of you and i. remember life in Bronzeville? Its been nearly 40 years since seeing you; both of us newborn in our adolescence.
we used to run the innocent streets, wind at our back, laughter greeting us…never getting old.these legs, knobby knees
still skinny
and even in my skin
i retain memory of your smile
matsukaze is a classical vocalist/actor always drawing from yesterday to enhance tomorrow. Japanese short verses are his expression. He resides in Dallas.
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Prickly by Jean Sudbury.*
M. Kei
the most delicate
lavender-magenta hue
rises from
the cracked dry earth,
surprising us with what we becomeeven cactus
will bloom in time-
a lesson for those
who think they can’t know
this prickly me
M. Kei is a tall ship sailor, poet, editor, and publisher of tanka. He pays keen attention to the changes in the world around him. Those who wait quietly are rarely surprised, but frequently delighted. He lives in Perryville, Maryland.
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*Jean Sudbury is a musician, gardener and yoga teacher in Sierra Madre. Photos of her wonderful garden inspired these tanka by M.Kei, as part of a Poets on Site garden tour, still in progress.
> The Poetry Corner is hosted by Kathabela Wilson, who says: ‘It is an honor to welcome M. Kei to our Poetry Corner today. A longtime poet, novelist, editor, publisher and scholar, he is greatly admired by me, the other two poets on our Corner, and tanka poets worldwide, who have benefited from his knowledge and encouragement. He publishes Atlas Poetica, a Journal of World Tanka, many anthologies, online and in print, and books by selected authors. He is author of “January, A Tanka Diary” and series of novels “Pirates of the Narrow Seas” . He says “I suffer from a disease of the heart that can only be cured by the sea.”
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