So this poem I wrote has been traveling around on a sticky note for quite some time now, and I figured I’d better post it before I lost it. It’s a Sappho, a vastly underused poetic form that I love for its unique rhythm and that I’m single-handedly trying to make popular again (and when [...]
May 8, 2008
Categories: Edie Montgomery-Pool, poetry . Tags: poetry, poem, poems, literature, online literature, Edie Montgomery-Pool, poems about the o.c., beach poems, beach poetry, poems about the beach, laguna, sunsets, the beach, free poetry, reprint poetry, california poetry, poems about california, short poems, very short poems . Author: abunchofwordz . Comments: No Comments
I spent the day with my dad who is very sick. This is kind of a free-form, journal-like, day-in-the-life type poem. Not sure what to call it — suggestions? Let me know if you have any thoughts on the ending, too.
Untitled (for now)
by Edie Montgomery-Pool
I keep thinking of what I’ll do if I find him [...]
March 29, 2008
Categories: Edie Montgomery-Pool, poetry . Tags: poetry, poem, Edie Montgomery-Pool, sad poems . Author: abunchofwordz . Comments: 1 Comment
Here’s the other poem I had published in The Advocate. I grew up by the Pacific ocean, and although I get terribly seasick, I’ve always had a love for the ocean (as long as I’m looking at it from the shore!).
Listen
by Edie Montgomery-Pool
Listen!
Lie as still as you can.
Close your eyes -
Feel the grit of the [...]
November 27, 2007
Categories: Edie Montgomery-Pool, poetry . Tags: poetry, poem, poems, Edie Montgomery-Pool, poems about the ocean, The Advocate, PKA Publications, nature poems, nature poetry . Author: abunchofwordz . Comments: 3 Comments
This was one of two poems I had published around 1996/1997 in The Advocate, PKA Publications. (I’m still waiting on my author’s copy, though - lol.) I wrote this when I was around 16; it’s a true story about a girl I knew at the time:
The Dog Show
by Edie Montgomery-Pool
Here’s a quaint, although true-to-life story
Of [...]
November 23, 2007
Categories: Edie Montgomery-Pool, poetry . Tags: poetry, poem, poems, Edie Montgomery-Pool, funny poems, funny poetry, humorous poems, humorous poetry, poems about dogs, dog show . Author: abunchofwordz . Comments: No Comments
Here’s a poem of mine I managed to find (I’m not the most organized person) which was published in a little, free poetry journal in the Summer of 1997 called Nomad’s Choir. It was inspired by a scuplture by the famous marine artist, Wyland.
He’s an amazing artist and a smart businessman as well. He allows [...]
October 29, 2007
Categories: Edie Montgomery-Pool, poetry . Tags: Edie Montgomery-Pool, fine art, humpback whales, literature, marine art, ocean art, poems, whale poetry, whales, Wyland . Author: abunchofwordz . Comments: 2 Comments
Here is the third and final poem I had published in Dakota Wesleyan University’s 50th Anniversary edition of Prairie Winds…
Stranger
by Edie Montgomery-Pool
A stranger in an even stranger land,
With a strange, underlying pulse
That she doesn’t understand.
Feeling estranged
In dingy, yellow lights and dingy nights
Of smudged and sallow structures
That grudgingly jut into skies
Of dingy yellow.
But safety safely stretches [...]
October 19, 2007
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Another poem of mine published in the Spring of ‘96 in Prairie Winds under “E.W. Montgomery-Pool”:
Necessary Burdens
by Edie Montgomery-Pool
We weren’t allowed to walk
To the liquor store,
Except with special permission,
To indulge in the cornucopia
Of candy, comic books,
And Mad Magazines,
One short block away.
And on the hundredth time we passed
By those bushes by the freeway,
Mother told us (for [...]
October 15, 2007
Categories: Edie Montgomery-Pool, poetry . Tags: poems, literature, Edie Montgomery-Pool, poems about childhood, poems about mothers, poems about moms . Author: abunchofwordz . Comments: No Comments
So I decided to create a new category on here for me, featuring poems and stuff I’ve published. It’s been a looong time since I was seriously submitting things for publication, and I just started getting the bug to do it again. I had 3 poems published in Prairie Winds under “E.W. Montgomery-Pool” in the Spring of [...]
October 13, 2007
Categories: Edie Montgomery-Pool, poetry . Tags: poems, poems about death, carousels . Author: abunchofwordz . Comments: No Comments