Buildings fall, streets flood:
An aerial view of distress.
Most suffering, though, has no image.
It takes its victims unseen;
Does not recede like water.
Dave Whippman is a UK poet and prose writer. He lives in the north of England.
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Thanks for reading Poets for Tsunami Relief.
The snow drips from the heavens
in white large frozen tears of
the angels and i am hypnotized
like a man struck by just how
a woman walking can leave him
speechless.
Now it’s beautiful.
Whereas before it was rainy
and gloomy, and the snow was
black and iced hard except for
the slush that was loose and ready
to give out under you no matter
how well you strut. But,
now it’s beautiful,
and i sit in the dark here in my
room. 15 stories from the ground
and the dripping tears dance
backlit by the lights of Times Square
and all i can think of is
now it’s beautiful.
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Robert Smith is a poet originally from Outside of Buffalo, NY, who lived in California, but now lives in Georgia. His Twitter page @rasmithii says he tweets his poems “from an airport near you.”
Thanks for reading Poets for Tsunami Relief.
first quarter moon
dancing pinheads burst
into new angel DNA
email to Canada
The moon is in its first quarter
this Japan morning
the day after
Tanka
the long night
and longer day
even our broken moon
over the biggest wave
separates our love
Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer for haiku and renga:www.withwords.org.uk
He wrote me tonight:
“Many of my Japanese friends are safe, either home, or still walking back home. One is even on the 20th storey of a big building because Japanese buildings are so safe, but homes can’t compete. The wave was travelling at 600mph.”
American writer and poet Jamie Dedes, a former columnist and features writer, reviewed ‘Leap’ today in her Saturday Review series. I’m thrilled with her well-written, informative review (and tickled she’d put Anne Murray, k.d. lang, and Mark Vonnegut in the same sentence as my name) and wanted to share parts of it with my readers here.
“When I think of Canada, the first thing I think of is snow and Mark Vonnegut (The Eden Express, Memoir of Insanity), and voices clear and cool as mountain spring-water, k.d. lang and Anne Murray … and now I think of Heather Grace Stewart, a new-to-me poet, writer/journalist, children’s writer, and photographer,” writes Jamie.
She continues, “In this one collection, Leap, Heather deftly combines lightness and depth. It’s an honest, unpretentious look at life with all its risks and joys. We recommend that you take the Leap. The book is oversized with a paperback cover and illustrated with Heather’s photographs of family – especially her young daughter – and nature scenes. It can be purchased HERE for $9.99 with half the proceeds going to UNICEF’s Gift of Education project.
You can read the whole review and many other great posts over at Jamie Dedes’ site.
Thanks, as always, for reading and taking the leap with me.
'Poetry Rocks' copyright Meg Laufer 2010
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