Poetry Corner Vineyards {Photo – Jean , wine label by Kathabela Wilson).
POETRY CORNER↓
– 4/01/15
Tim Callahan
Elegant Clarkia
How elegant in vacant lots, it springs
up like a weed and yet is native to
this place – far more than any human child –
and to the gray dry soil untended clings
and lifts up blooms, magenta, pink and blue.
On seeing them I am by light beguiled –
by light, and spring and by their iron will –
expressed in delicate and slender stalks –
to raise up beauty in a land so hard.
Triumphant, proud, and with fine disregard
for deadly drought, how happily it mocks
the desiccating heat that cannot kill
it ere it goes to seed and scatters life
in dormant spheres with vital forces rife.
Tim Callahan lives in the Millard Canyon area in the foothills of Altadena, on the edge of the Angelus National Forest. He is a wildflower enthusiast and often hikes the Sunset Ridge Trail near where he lives. Elegant Clarkia are among a number of different wildflowers he has incorporated into his garden.
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Stephen Colgan
the ominous
clear blue sky
even the memory
of rain
is evaporatingdrought –
letting the garden
go brown
the sound of the stream
in my memory
Stephen Colgan is a poet, photographer, and bureaucrat who lives in Oakland, California. Drought-stricken California produces 95% of the country’s broccoli, which requires 5.4 gallons for each head.
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Clarkia Blooming in Drought (Photo – Jean Sudbury).
Janette Hoppe
lustful
these drought filled lips
starved
for the scent of rain
and a lick of grass
Janette Hoppe lives in Waratah, Newcastle. Australia is prone to drought, although recently they have been seeing lots of rain. She is a New Zealand born that’s now residing in the sunburnt land Down Under.
! We welcome and encourage your response especially in the form of short poems. You may reply by leaving a comment below. The Poetry Corner is hosted by Kathabela Wilson. Photos by Jean Sudbury.
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