Bent to pray Spring flowers pause in silence from their bloom it's not meant to be like this On the news they recount a cost worth more than any jackpot luck The watching close their desperate eyes heads not turned but bent to pray Hoping it's not too late for love to change the world …
Poet Joe Hesch
La Luna Piena Last night’s full moon, resplendent in its frost-haloed glory, shone like the brightest pearl, perched on a phosphorescent-ringed half-shell, like Botticelli’s Venus. Or maybe like a silver stone dropped into the deepest-blue pool, and there emitting concentric ripples of gold, turquoise, and pink, and a light beyond white, casting shadows so dense …
Poet Kellie Elmore
Funeral for Revelations Sun Gray mist rains on the mourning, smothering earths ember as she is laid to rest. Trumpets sound, a lonesome hymn across rolling hills and swallowed valleys. In the darkest hour, clarity rains an immortal dew, settling ash atop a new harvest. Kellie Elmore lives in East Tennessee. She's been writing since …
Poet Brandee Baltzell
Taking Back The sea lunges forth To claim her sacred bounty Snatched from Earth’s lax grasp Brandee Baltzell calls herself a "fledgling poet & writer." She lives in Surprise, Arizona. Thanks for reading Poets for Tsunami Relief. Please consider a donation to The Red Cross. In Canada, go to: http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000043&tid=016 In the UK, go to: …
Poet Mark Stratton
Poem for Japan The music of children playing A smile warms my face Vibrant blues stretch for Deepening reds on arms Cardinal hiding in a bush Flew there 'pon approach Crows circling high above Lazing through the summer sky Cool of the evening Ending a summers day Mark Stratton is the editor of Cats With …
Heather Grace Stewart 