Fall 2006 Poetry Collection
Edited by Charles H. Johnson
For this posting, sixteen poets display their responses to the
magical call to write poems. Their answers originate from many different
parts of the world, including England, New Zealand, Peru, Iraq,
both coasts of the United States, plus the heartland of this vast
country.
Though the poetry offered here springs from diverse locales and
cultures, it is written in one language – English. The perspectives
necessarily cannot be the same, but the motivation to create a piece
of language art is universal. The drive to make something with words
crosses all man-made boundaries.
THE URGE
Sometimes the urge to write a poem
comes on strong like rushing wind.
It shows up sudden with lightning
striking the center of the page
as clouds converge to consume
the edges. Other times the poem
appears in clear skies drawing
closer from a distance like a gull
slipping over the ocean with no
discernible destination. But it’s
there in the heavens giving pleasure
as we experience the immediacy
of being – the now of a creation
that has been written on the wind.
Charles H. Johnson
Poetry Editor
Fall 2006 Poetry:
READING HOPKINS IN PALOS VERDES
by Andrew Demcak
REFLECTIONS ON WRITING by Jann
Burner
THEY BUILT A WALL AROUND THE OCEAN
by Lily Bower
VISITING CAVE CREEK by Nicholas
Messenger
PUBLISHER'S NOTE and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
by Benjamin Bucholz
THERE IT IS by Hannah Price
GEOMETRY AND A LETTER by Laura
McKee
SENEGALESE GROVE by Holly Day
AFRICA by Kathryn Wagner
DEFINITION OF A TREE by Christine
Hamm
AFTER MY NAME IS SPOKEN by Meridith
Gresher
SHAPES IN THE AIR by Carolyn
Syrgley-Moore
NEITHER FISSION NOR FUSION by Ed
Tato
CLEAVINGS by Hank Kalet
A PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by KC Wilder
WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A LOOSE GHAZAL, I
REGARD AS
ANOTHER SMALL, BUT NECESSARY, STEP TOWARD RECOVERY by James
R. Whitley
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