Poets Salon: Rose Parade

POETS SALON

– 12/14/22

Hosted by Kathabela Wilson

waiting
for the Rose Parade
all night jigsaw

~ Kathabela

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Rose Parade, 2022 (Photo – Deborah P Kolodji)

Deborah P Kolodji

motorcycle cops
decorated with roses
the parade’s first sounds

staking out a claim
along the Rose Parade route
our row of camp chairs

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A Marching Band at the Rose Parade, 2022 (Photo – Deborah P Kolodji)

Christine L. Villa

yearly Rose Parade
again, my dreams are perfumed
even in my sleep

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Rose Parade: Notes and Credits

Deborah P Kolodji, of Temple City, CA, leads the Southern California Haiku Study group and has attended the Rose Parade in Pasadena since she was a child.

Christine L. Villa is a poet, editor and author and video artist in North Highlands, CA.

Memory Lane
> You will love to visit with Yvette Nicole Kolodji, the beauty of our related salon from 2021, "She Makes Her Own Rose Parade."

Submission Guidelines

Suggest your own theme. or write Kathabela for a theme suggestion. We publish every two weeks. Send short poems, free verse, haiku, senryu, tanka, cherita, haibun, tanka prose, short prose poems, etc., or your own unique approach, to Kathabela by text message or (click here to email her directly). We can feature your work again after five months. Multiple Submissions can be saved to appear later:

1. Send a short bio, with comments on your theme.
2. Send photos or artwork by you, or friends.
3. Put your poems directly in the email.
4. No attachments except photos.

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