Since early 2007, it has been my pleasure to edit blue skies poetry. I have been awed and inspired by the poetry that has appeared in my inbox over the years, and I have been privileged to share over 600 hundred of those poems with readers of this website. Out of this site […]
Dusk colours the uneven stairs.
I stand on the wooden steps and look around,
the distant sea hidden
behind ancient, towering trees.
I imagine waves
moving fishermen’s boats,
the smell of salmon and tuna
wrapped in seaweed.
Sushi restaurants abound
on the winding streets
of this port town,
tiny gems behind indigo curtains.
Now I climb
the steps two at a time.
At last, I reach the Shiogama Shrine
structures […]
An indigo sky pours moonbeams
over my naked body.
I soak in midnight baths,
avoid curious stares at my full breasts,
my desert dune hips, my olive skin.
The Mediterranean Sea in my bones
ripples as an unexpected body
sinks in the hot spring.
I glance at the folded skin.
Gomen nasai, a woman’s voice cracks.
She gets out quickly but I insist,
It’s okay. […]
Our life in this world
A boat rowing out to sea
leaves no trace behind.
~ Andrée Levie-Warrilow
“Poetry has been a way for me to make sense of events in my life. Published poems include 2 Honourable Mentions for poems submitted to the Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Awards Contest (chosen from entries across South Western Ontario), and a poem […]
