Poetry Corner: Sound of Water

POETRY CORNER

– 9/28/16

Hosted by Kathabela Wilson

♣ 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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Photo by Kathabela Wilson.

Pauli Dutton

a stick of bamboo
resting in the garden
plays a trickle of water
to accompany
a poem

Pauli Dutton lives in La Cañada Flintridge, CA where she worked as head librarian at the Altadena Library. She comes to our meetings in the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden and was inspired by the beautiful fountain basin, “tsukubai”. She says “While visiting the garden I was taken by the mystery of two flute-like sticks coming together to create a fountain that plays the soft musical sound of a trickle of water”.

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River Songs by Kris Kondo.

Gerry Jacobson

falling asleep
as rain patters
the roof
dampening
this drought stricken heart

Gerry Jacobson lives in Canberra, Australia. His poem highlights the soothing and enlivening qualities of nature within a human life. It speaks for all places and times where “drought” is a challenge.

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Watercolor painting by Tong Zhang, Jinhua, China.

Briony James

the great murmuring
ageless and ceaseless
roar
of water dragons
beneath the waves

Briony James is an Altadena poet who is traveling to the “ageless” nourishment of home, after exploring briefly the possibilities of the eastern US. Her journey highlighted (like a dragon’s “roar”) the pleasures and community of home in Southern CA.

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kris moon lives in a small house over a river and her head is often filled with riversound.

Tong Zhang is a watercolor artist in Jinhua, China. Kathabela and Rick Wilson met her during their visit to Zhejiang Normal University, where her husband, Xuding Zhu, professor of mathematics, was their host in Jinhua.

> Kathabela recalls her own travels across the country from New York to California years ago, with her two children, deciding on a new home and writing poems along the way. Her strongest wish was to live near “the sound of water”.