as I would look out at the nightride her Moonarmrest callto Junean overstuffedvelvet covered chairdare me past each bare threshold open my heart a window againlet spill curtain symphonieswear alleyways on skinned pleasinggetting through things li…
Poem A Day – Ed Rinaldi – as I would look out at the night Read More »
chained to mountain viewsor the poems that spill sidewaysand the poems that fill ridden daysthese are the words that a soul’s geometryconnects the dots withhandfuls of carvebleeding a sieveof blossomed tomorrowswith the swill thirst of morethe crawl bu…
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Ticket Please She brought too much drama, even for the man for whom all the world’s a stage. He was happier now as the usher, standing by the exit. Lights down, curtain up. All the rest is darkness. © 2012 Joseph Hesch
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Divorcing My Father, at 8 on the George Washington Bridge at rush hour you handed me a manila folder then returned to putting your lipstick on my last name was written first in black VS and your last name in red as we approached the bumper of a yellow cab dirty with dents and scratches
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WASABI!!! An ode to a finely ground root my chopstick slices down through the perfectly squeezed flower of electric lime green goo severing just enough of that finely ground root to completely coat the surface of my avocado sushi roll. with heightened anticipation I pop the morsel wholly into my mouth and await the burning
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Losing Kurt at 13 On February 20th I wrote him a love letter for his birth day come find me in the north east ride your mothers ship from Seattle and poke your love heart out to mine let’s make babies or a mess that someone else is bound to write about when we are
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Are you writing a poem everyday for National Poetry Month? Want to post those poems on the Albany Poets website? Send them to albanypoets@gmail.com and they will be available for the world to read.
Poem A Day – Jacqueline Kirkpatrick – drunk dial Read More »
the prostitute and the mania of a waning MoonI start writing the words black notebook and pen likebutter on biscuits steaming from the oven quick slidthe ease of melt where a mouth fitslike it does a kiss just remember this is whywe close our eyesto se…
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what the rain couldn’t hear was time is a mistress of moreGoddessriddling the windwith her tongues on our clockscarvingour dark beginsour peel scraped endsour molecules thinned enough to birth light ineach element of usin all the spacethat elect…
Poem A Day – Ed Rinaldi – what the rain couldn’t hear was Read More »
Although I did publish a chapbook last year of poems written during a month of prompts, Poeming the Prompt (A.P.D.), I’m not one for this form of assignment, mainly because I don’t like doing something because everyone else is doing it. But I know it…
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staining the exitsthe house is all ghosts and no bonesas if pall-bearing death itselfwill watch the wind all day take my breath intothe quiet that tapping keysgives birth tomy every unknownmy every outcome my every lovemy every stonethrown in wishesat …
Poem A Day – Ed Rinaldi – staining the exits Read More »
With National Poetry Month right around the corner, actually beginning this coming Sunday, we wanted to point out an exciting 30 day poetry challenge that the Word X Word Festival in Pittsfield is putting together. Everyday in the month of April, participants will get an email with a prompt and the poet takes it from there. For
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The Hudson Valley Writers Guild supports the efforts of writers in all genres by sponsoring readings, workshops, and contests and providing a number of valuable resources for the entire literary community.
