This cute and well-written funny Thanksgiving poem, called The Thanksgiving Toupee Souflee, was created by Terry Lerdall-Fitterer and re-published here with her special permission:
The day had arrived; ’twas exactly one year
since my relatives, (moochers), had Thanksgiving here,
poor Grandpa was already stewed to the gills,
and Grandma–disgusted, was popping pink pills.
The turkey was turning a rich, golden [...]
Read a fantastic poem over at the online literary journal, Strange Horizons (so you already know I’m going to like the site because it has “strange” in the title – haha). Anyway, this poem is by Ann K. Schwader, called Maya Blue (at Chichen Itza), and it starts out:
Imperishable blue this bitter sky
that Chaak abandons, [...]
Are the Summer Olympics taking up too much of your time and digital recording space? Want to get right to the nitty gritty? Here are several sports in the 2008 Olympic games, all recapped in 17 words or less. This is a work in progress; I’ll add more as I watch more Olympics.
2008 Summer Olympics [...]
Thank you to Amy Sorensen, a.k.a. The English Geek, for bringing this poem to my attention in her post, Why I Love April. It’s by Naomi Shihab Nye and was written in response to one of the poet’s students asking her to write him a poem:
Valentine for Ernest Mann
by Naomi Shihab Nye
You can’t order a poem like you [...]
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 [...]
Some dude named Joe Cislo published this poem over at 3Hive.com. I like it…
“Leslie Erickson
said she liked my Van
Halen button. It
was V-shaped just like
Eddie’s guitar. I’d
bought it at a flea
market along with
some tube socks that had
holes in the heels and
toes…”
To read the rest of this poem, titled Van Halen, go here.
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This is the second in [...]
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 [...]
Frida Kahlo’s Pain #2 is the name of this poem by Mercedes Lawry which appears in the Ireland-based online literary journal, Electric Acorn…
The pain relies on me.
A gnarled hand
squeezes my bones, my tentative breaths.
I live with this thief
who robs me of everything, who sits
on my soul.
Read the rest of the poem and other poems by [...]
