Poetry Corner: Strolling Pasadena

POETRY CORNER

Strolling Pasadena (Photo – Sonny Premo).

– 7/08/15

Gary Blankenship

marching music
ghost of the grand parade
poets sing
of the city’s rhythms
oranges dropping in my hand

Gary Blankenship lives in Bremerton, Washington, but loves the Pasadena area. He’s visited in the past, and wants to come back here where sunshine grows on trees.

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Strolling Pasadena (Photo – Sonny Premo).

Briony James

Friday night in Oldtown
streetlight sunning youth
hurrying
for a new cocktail
stirred and shaken by the moon

ambling under antique lights
whispers of another time
the Shakespeare bridge
beckons the future
while reaching to the past

Briony James lost herself in Los Angeles and found herself almost forty years later when Knightsbridge actors sent her across the Shakespeare bridge into Old Pasadena and convinced her that it was the Promised Land. She wanders from Colorado to Lake in a perpetual state of crazed creativity.

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Strolling Pasadena (Photo – Sonny Premo).

Deborah P Kolodji

rose-colored
any time of year
the pink line
that guides the floats
down Colorado

Deborah P Kolodji has lived in the Pasadena area for most of her adult life and has attended every Rose Parade (except 3) since 1979. Author of over 800 published poems, she finds the pink line in the middle of Colorado Boulevard even more inspiring than a yellow brick road. She moderates the Southern California Haiku Study Group, which meets at Hill Street Pasadena Public Library on the 3rd Saturday of every month.

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Strolling Pasadena (Photo – Sonny Premo).

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