Poem for the Day - The Green Wall

The Green Wall From my window I see a green wall. A quiet space with only the sounds of shoes passing by. In Sendai, one thousand two hundred people have lost their shoes. They float by windows like tiny boats sailing on a splintered sea. In the time I've been visiting this grove I've never noticed the green wall never known the faces of the shoes passing by. I've never known so many people losing their shoes in one day's drowning holocaust....

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Poem for the Day - Sand Dunes

Sand Dunes Close to the ocean lying on a slope we hugged towels into sand. At the back, in the holiday house we rented, my mother distributed fairy bread. A tiny pebbled meal. On the beach, we ran green with salt and spray. Half way up the dunes under a sackful of clouds we bombed our candied mouths into the dune’s caress. Three kids stomping to the tune of the grand old Duke of York marched to the top of the hill. We were neither up, nor...

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Poetic Graphic for the Day - Poetry Slam

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Poem for the Day - The Monroes

The Monroes Back in the 50s I grew up with the Monroes. There were so many children in the family you lost count. I remember Billy, the eldest, Bobby, Jane and Susy, then there were two sets of twins. Later, more babies, a boy, a girl, another girl as in Cheaper by the Dozen. Most of all, I remember Rex, and their bare feet swinging on the front gate. How different they were in glamour to the buxom lady in Some Like it Hot. They didn't own shoes....

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