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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
