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 Robert Smith
Now it's beautiful Now it's beautiful. 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 …
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 