POETRY CORNER
– 03/15/17
Hosted by Kathabela Wilson
Tom’s inspiring poems and images prompted this Poetry Corner. The stunning idea of his that in the mirroring stream we put fallen leaves back on our trees is restorative and hopeful, as the effects of his poetry always are. What else can we do when we look into a mirror?
~ Kathabela
Stewart Park, New York (Photo – Tom Clausen).
Tom Clausen
backwater
fallen leaves
back to bare branches…
Tom Clausen walks the woods in Ithaca, New York, gathering insight and vision.
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Reflections (Photo – Tom Clausen).
Johannes S. H. Bjerg
in a monologue
turned in on itself
the rain falls –
after a day in silence
I tell jokes to the mirror
Johannes S. H. Bjerg lives ”in a sleepy village surrounded by ancient burial mounds in Denmark. Here he tries to listen, just listen”.
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Cornell Botanic Garden pond (Photo – Tom Clausen)
Patty Hardin
the old woman in the mirror
claims to be me
but i deny it knowing
the lines on my face
tell a different story
Patty Hardin in Long Beach, Washington says: “I looked in my bathroom mirror one morning only to see my mother watching me. Will my daughter look in her mirror one day, denying I look back at her?”
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Mirror Image (Photo – Tom Clausen).
James W. McRight Jr.
Haibun: to the store
It seems my travels are small, I go all the time in small circles. To the store, back again to the woods. To the doctor, back again to the woods. To the feed mill, back again to the woods. In small circles sometimes I forget my keys, and sometimes I forget my hat, my hat gets angry if I leave it home.
I lock the door
this is all about time
tracks in the sand
going both ways ~ out and in
again ~ I unlock the dooragain ~ I unlock the door
going both ways ~ out and in
tracks in the sand
this is all about time
I lock the door(James, did you lock the door?)
James W. McRight Jr. lives in Walterboro SC. He says: “Been writing poetry for some 20 years now. I came up with the idea of the mirror image tanka because, I think a tanka is not finished reading until it is read in reverse, therefore a tanka is not finished writing until it can be read in reverse, the mirror image.”
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♣ We welcome and encourage your response especially in the form of short poems. You may reply by leaving a comment below.
I really enjoyed Poetry Corner, all of it. The photos and the poems. Thank you.
Karen UK
Haiga poetry/photo combo: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5107066/IMG_2429.JPG
Ia am quite interested in haiga, photo haiga.
An example I would like to leave with you.
thank you, Poets-All & Tom-for-your-photos, for the reflections on mirrors–leaves, reeds, dreams!!
Lovely! I especially liked McRight’s “to the store” haibun.” Well done all and thanks Kathabela for your continuous, industrious devotion to our art.