The Pear Eaters On raised legs the foxes slide their incisors over hard green pears suspended on the stem, still so firmly attached they do not fall to the ground to be finished off. Others fall, that foxes leave, having eaten carousels of bite-fulls, leaving others to the groundhog. I leave the incisored ones on the branch, rescue those untouched to bring inside to ripen. © Laura Rodley, 2019 Laura Rodley is a Massachusetts poet whose latest … [Read more...]
A childhood poem and two calls for submission
Hey there! I know, I know – it’s August 21 and I am writing my first post for the month—yeesh. I don’t have any excuse except that I’ve been looking for solace in this crazy world and coming up short. How about you? I am hoping you are not bogged down by reality. Back in July, I had a poem about my childhood in The Writer’s Café Magazine. The call was for submissions about landscape and maps so I sent in a poem about walking to grade school – it’s called “To … [Read more...]
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit
Happy July! Hope it is lucky for you. And, happy 4th of July. Hope you have some fun. And to my fellow Moon Children, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Here's a poem I wrote twenty years ago, but I still like it. Peace, love, and solace July begins The day before I turn 41 I brood, wash dishes, think how my husband and sons have taken no time to shop, how I hadn’t seen my boys scurry away with crayons and paper to make--all I asked for--a heartfelt … [Read more...]
Fairies and pity
Hey there. Summer is off to a slow start but gloomy June is sliding by. The news of the world is disheartening. Hope you’re finding some solace. Not everything you learn on Twitter is bad. For instance I learned that Independent Author Day was May 26 for The Book Fairies USA who distributed free copies of Solace in So Many Words in Missoula, Montana and in Glendale, California. You say you don’t know about The Book Fairies? The idea of The Book Fairies is simple. There … [Read more...]
Saying good-bye to April with Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hello to you and good-bye to April (and to Poetry Month). In Chicago April has been days of sun and spring temperatures as well as days of snow (and rain and rain that became snow). Embodying the contradictory emotions and weathers of April are these two poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. They also show how poetry can be about divergent subjects. Spring poems often celebrate rebirth and joy but not these two poems. Hope you are celebrating Spring in your own way. I’ll … [Read more...]
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