Walking in the Neighborhood

Walking with geese (Photo – Rick Wilson, Caltech campus, Pasadena).

POETRY CORNER↓

– 4/22/15

Rick Wilson

my first baby steps
praise and encouragement
years later an accident
months in bed . . .
history repeats

Rick Wilson is a mathematician, professor emeritus at Caltech in Pasadena. He was walking near campus recently when he was “greatly inconvenienced” by a car, but he is recovering well.

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Pat Geyer

fourteen steps
just round the corner
on a climb…
fortnight lily
pulls us up into songs

Pat Geyer is an amateur photographer and poet. Sometimes she walks for miles, finding inspiration on the sleepy streets and colorful parks of East Brunswick, NJ.

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Forsythia (Photo – Sigrid Saradunn, Downeast Maine).

Gerry Jacobson

Sydney park …
small boy chases soccer ball
a sacred ibis
walks across
someone’s picnic

Gerry Jacobson lives in inner west, Sydney Australia. His “school holiday job” is to look after two grandchildren while Mummy goes to work. They love to walk in Enmore Park, just across the road.

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Sigrid Saradunn

forsythia
as far as the eye can see
dots the landscape
greetings of cheer at every turn
reach out to passers by

Sigrid Saradunn lives in Downeast, Maine where there is “the most unbelievably beautiful rocky coast to walk along. Spring in Maine is colored in a rainbow of color with the forsythia and lupine leading the way”.

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