COALMINER’S YODEL NO. 1 ~BY PHILIP BARTRAM
Grandfather spoke fondly of Ike
In a breath scuffed by the lung-deep
2025
FROM THE EARLY YEARS ~BY PHILIP BARTRAM
In a leave-rustling breeze,
The child dismounted a broom-stick horse,
BROWN EYES ~BY STEPHEN BAUERMEISTER
Time flies,
When I look into your brown eyes,
Like chocolate sweets,
RAINBOWS ~BY POETICIA
Your gaze rushed at me like waterfalls
Dropping rainbows on my heart
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY ~BY BILLY COLLINS
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT ~BY DYLAN THOMAS
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day
LETTING GO ~BY POETICIA
My shadows you grew in your backyard, clandestine photosynthesis with your darkness. I nourished them with tears, unsalted over time. The sun came up, I reached deep down, my roots calling out to me. Uprooting them was painful but I heard your darkness scream through my veins. Tearing away from your weeds, I stretched out…
THE MAN IN THE DOORWAY ~BY PAM LEVARI
There once was a little girl so innocent and free-
One morning she work up
That had all been taken
