October-November Publication News
1-Mankh’s Haiku du Jour, October 20, 2017
Thank you Mankh for publishing one of my favorite haiku:
veins on leaves
my tree’s hands
touch mine
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2-Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot, October 24, 2017
Thank you ayaz daryl neilsen. Check out these other poets:
Diane Webster, Cathy Porter, Nancy Shires, Teresinka Pereira, Candy Cooper-Towler, Ann Christine Tabaka, Jean Aldriedge, Carl Mayfield, and Toma Rosen.
https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2017/10/favorite-poets-and-their-poems-diane.html
pastoral silence
inner cacophony
speaks
trees having
an icicle meltdown
mid-winter blues
vapor clouds
rise from my teapot a praia dorme
Winter cold blues a maré, um corbertor
a lua assiste
the beach sleeps
the tide, a blanket the moon watches
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3-The Weekly Avocet #257, November 12, 2017
Thank you Charles Portolano for publishing my nature poetry. Honored to be with Carol Winter, Dave Jilk,Mary Jane Andrews, Wilda Morris, Ned Pendergast, Charles Portolano, Tim Grassley, Neil Creighton, Glenn Hubbard, Mike Witmer, Joel Savishinsky.
Autumn’s Chill
Autumn’s chill
paints leaves
in rich reds and gold –
casts them six feet
above chilled soil.
Sunflowers
become aged people.
Green stalks turn gray,
droop in defeat.
Yellow petals shrivel,
drop like ochre tears.
My sweater,
worn over a Summer top,
feels no compassion.
An intricate weave
of utilitarian fiber
has me shiver
behind buttonholes.
But like flowers and leaves,
I watch days fall apart.
Autumn rubs my shoulders –
a dubious sensation
born from wind,
devoid of love,
will die in Winter’s hands.
Snow will come
to bury the past –
the trees will be at peace.
(Published in MOBIUS, The Poetry Magazine)
winds shake the trees
goose bumps
under my sweater
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3-The Weekly Avocet #258, November 19, 2017
Thank you Charles Portolano for publishing my nature poetry. Honored to be with Floyd D. Anderson, Judith Lynn Sutton, John Swartz, Greg Gregory, Charles Portolano, Gene Rockwell Gant, Jackie Fellague, Michael Escoubas, Jane Lang, Walter Worden, Ray Zimmerman, Deenaz P. Coachbuilder
freezing toes
thinking about
flip-flop retirement
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4- Nomad’s Choir, Fall 2017, Vol. 25 Issue 4
Thank you Joshua Meander for publishing “Gray-White.” Kudos to many fine poets: Bob Barci,
Jack Cooper, Robert Gibbons, Gordon Gilbert, Marvin Goldfarb, Jim Hart, Marilyn Thomas-King, Joshua Meander, Yinka Meander, Ros Rabin, Chris Robin, Sheryl H. Simler, and many more.
Gray-White
Gray-white—the sky looks old,
devoid of sunlit blue.
Like the overcast that covers Brooklyn,
the colors in my neighborhood diminish.
Melting snow,
devoid of youthful white,
hugs the cars and curbs.
The featherlike trees,
devoid of chlorophyll expression,
stand like wrinkled silhouettes,
frozen in timeless sleep.
Sadness is everywhere—
gray-white paints the living room
to match my mood.
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5-Diaphanous Journal of the Literary and Visual Arts, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Fall 2017, November 22
https://diaphanouspress.com/portfolio/deja-vu-patricia-carragon/
Thank you Krysia Jopek and Meg Harris for publishing, “Déjà Vu.” I’m happy to be in the same issue with Jennifer Juneau, Javad Ahmadi, R. Bremner, Tree Riesener, Krysia Jopek, Meg Harris, and more.