One more sky. From Thrush Poetry Journal, May 2014. A beautiful poem chosen by Helen Vitoria, editor. Complete poem (and two others by Ms. Goodfellow) here:
http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/may-2014-jessica-goodfellow.html
from Hover / by Goodfellow
Hover, canopy, the endless falling snow a shroud
More clouds-sky. From Fairy Tale Review: The Emerald Issue, March 2014.
from Dorothy / by Lindsay Lusby
Be the green sky.
More clouds-sky. Love this! From Ploughshares, Spring 2014. More at:
http://www.pshares.org/
from House of Wigs / by Jonathan Wells
The sky was low. His head was a vase of
sorrows he wanted to fill with blossoms.
More clouds-wind-sky. From Fairy Tale Review: The Emerald Issue, March, 2014.
from White Snake, Green Snake / by Su-Yee Lin
A string of kites fly into the hazy sky, the sun a shrouded fiery marble.
From Gathering the Bones Together, 1975. More at:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/gregory-orr
from From That Moment / by Gregory Orr
From that moment he breathes more carefully,
like a man who has swallowed a cloud.
More clouds and sky from a fellow Ohioan. From Beltway Poetry Quarterly, http://washingtonart.com/beltway/plumly.html. More on Plumly at: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/stanley-plumly
from Constable’s Clouds for Keats / by Stanley Plumly
And you write them down in oils because of their
brilliance, and to remember, in its turn, each one.
From APR, May/June 2014. How about a wind-sky-cloud theme for the week? More on Allen at:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/dick-allen
from The Zen Master Speaks of Unaccountable Days
It’s true, they went like the wind,
but they also went like the blue sky sometimes does
out over the Atlantic
More birds. From The Heat Bird (1983), the book, and from the poem of the same name. More at:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/mei-mei-berssenbrugge
from The Heat Bird / by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
luminous space in their wings showed against the sky
giving each a great delicacy in turns
Yes, it’s from Bright Wings.
from Rara Avis / by Brendan Constantine
When interviewed, the bird watchers gave
quick, birdlike answers.
More birds. Yes, it’s from Bright Wings again, ed. by Collins. The paintings by Sibley are worth the purchase, too.
from The Birds / by Robert Creeley
I want
to ride that air which makes the sea
seem down there, not the element
in which one thrashes to come up.
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