blue skies poetry will be on hiatus over the holidays and will return to its regular schedule beginning January 10, 2011, at which time you can look forward to reading new work by Canadian and international poets twice a week.
In the meantime, please send your submissions of up to 3 poems in the text […]
Why is beauty so often flawed?
Twenty years they waited
for this rare Sumatran specimen
to flourish.
And, then, it would only bloom
for two or three days.
Patiently standing in line,
curling around the block,
fanning themselves furiously,
huge hordes of Japanese people
wait to view this world-record five-foot-tall
exotic, erotic flower, amorphallus titanaum,
in a Tokyo park.
Moshi, moshi they murmur, hugging
their ubiquitous
mobiles.
Sadly, the pungent odor
is […]
strolling across
the baseball diamond–
no noise this morning
***
more wind this morning–
no pigeons on the roof
***
pigeon eating
what looks like a stone–
drops it
***
the hill goes up
around the next corner
and down again
~ Allan Brown
Allan Brown’s twenty second volume of poetry, the chapbook One Way or Another, was published by Rubicon Press in October of this year.
Read more of Allan […]
listening to
the CBC Food Bank Day
while my coffee cools
***
the bug moves
across the steps
& stops
***
a few scraps of wood
in his front yard –
day of the funeral
~ Allan Brown
Allan Brown’s twenty second volume of poetry, the chapbook One Way or Another, was published by Rubicon Press in October of this year.
Read more of Allan Brown’s poetry: […]
I am a frequent
apocalyptic flyer
looking to land my
rusty, shopping cart heart
in which nothing is ever
bright, dent-free or new.
Your heart is
a redemption centre
where I cash in my
worthless self
and transform into
a useful currency.
~ Jordan Trethewey
Jordan Trethewey is a writer living in Fredericton, N.B. with his wife Tina and their animal menagerie, which includes cats Rembrandt and Mortimer […]
