Poetry Corner: Unusual Times

POETRY CORNER

– 12/02/15

(Photo – Sonny Premo)

Beth Zimmer Cunningham

folded secrets, attic scents
memories unearthed
deliberately placed for me
she whispers from the grave
adults forbidden playground

Beth Zimmer Cunningham (b.1977) lives in Peachtree City, Georgia. Not really a poet by nature, but her brother, Brian Zimmer, always encouraged her when the words just seemed to flow. This poem was written after their mother’s death, and finding old letters in their family attic.

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Frozen River tanka: “We live on a river and it froze for the first time last winter!” (Photo – Kat Lehmann)

Kat Lehmann

standing upon
a frozen river
which way should I go
when I’m no longer carried
in one direction?

Kat Lehmann,(Connecticut, USA) is a scientist-poet who enjoys exploring the grandiose captured within the minute. Her book, Moon Full of Moons, describes a journey to newfound happiness according to the phases of the Moon. During unusual or challenging times, she imagines, the Moon might decide to pull down the Sun and glow from within, just like we do. She can be found looking skyward or on twitter @SongsOfKat.

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(Photo – Sonny Premo)

Briony James

the sun circles east to west
moonrise follows
changing her radiant veil
your voice is missing
why does time feel still?

Briony James says “Unusual times often combine loss and discovery in equal measures. Briony James keeps finding this to be true in Altadena’s foothills.”

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> Photographer Sonny Premo was transplanted from Massachusetts to sunny SoCal, her eyes are a lens for Unusual Sights, artistically and professionally.

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