Stacking Stones

Stacking Stones (Photo – Adam Blankenship).

POETRY CORNER

– 7/15/15

Tom Clausen

all these memories
built up over the years
standing as they do
until some storm
takes them all away

Tom Clausen is a life-long resident of Ithaca, NY. He is retired from a job in Mann Library at Cornell University but still maintains a daily haiku feature at the library home page. Tom has been interested in short poetic forms since the late 1980’s. He hikes and explores everywhere he goes, from the woods near his home to the mountains of Peru, and shares his discoveries with his friends.

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A little happiness (Photo – Adam Blankenship).

Adam Blankenship

world
full of doom gloom
sadness
a simple stack
a little happiness

pagoda
precariously perched
piled perfection
pity pulverized

Adam Blankenship of Tacoma Washington, is a poet and artist who brings rock-stacking into the realm of art adding further layers of metaphor.

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A rock stacker (Photo – Adam Blankenship).

Sharon Hawley

strong calloused hands
stacking rocks for Bolton Hall
he chinks with stones
then pebbles too
til hardly any mortar shows

Sharon Hawley Sharon Hawley is a poet adventurer who travels the world
to unusual places in off-seasons, and has given hundreds of poetic and photographic programs about her trips. She especially loves and studies the geology of the landscapes she visits. She often reads her poems at the beautifully hand-built rock structure, Bolton Hall Museum, in Sunland-Tujunga during readings of the Village Poets.

*Photos by Adam Blankenship of his own art.

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