Another for the children of October, from An Eyeball in My Garden, from our librarian-poet, Stella Michel. More on the book and poet, here:
http://www.eyeballinmygarden.com/
from Mummy’s Menu / by Stella Michel
Crispy scarab beetle pies,
Ladyfingers, with the rings
Another for the children of October, from An Eyeball in My Garden, from our own M. Sullivan. More about the poet-nurse here:
http://msullivantales.wordpress.com/
from The Giant’s Pocket / by M. Sullivan
I’m stuck inside the pocket
Of a giant, dreadful beast —
Another for the children of October, from our William who founded that critique group of yore, and, from An Eyeball in My Garden.
http://shakespeery.com/email.htm
from Haunted / by William Shakespeery
She calls my name, then thumps the wall.
My bedroom quakes and pictures fall.
Another for the children of October, from our hula dancer-poet-illustrator, Edna, from the book, An Eyeball in My Garden.
http://www.scbwi.org/members-public/edna-cabcabin-moran
from Zombie Kid Blues / by Edna Cabcabin Moran
Though I borrowed a mitt
That perfectly fit,
It came off with my hand still inside.
For the swamp witch in each of us, from our own Susie, from the anthology of spooky poems, An Eyeball in My Garden. More about Susie here:
http://www.jacketflap.com/profile.asp?member=Soosaw
from Swamp Witch / by Susie Sawyer
Beneath the murky muck and mud,
She lurks and lives alone.
For goblins, from our own Jen, one of the two editors of An Eyeball in My Garden: And Other Spine-Tingling Poems. The book is also illustrated by Johan Olander. More about the poet here:
http://jennifercolejudd.com/?page_id=2
from The Goblin Parade / by Jennifer Cole Judd
In the inky black street
Their fat, knobbly feet
Stomp a rhythm that makes the earth shake.
Double poems today, because this one’s especially for my eerily-talented critique group of yore. This one’s from our own Laura, who is also one of the editors of the book in which the poem appears. The book is An Eyeball in My Garden, (2010), recently out in paperback, appropriate for brave 5th graders to adult, and edited by two amazing women, Laura Wyncoop and Jennifer Cole Judd.
from Halloween Night / by Laura Wyncoop
As dangling ghosts untie their strings
To float among the trees
For basketball, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins.
from Old Men Playing Basketball / by B.H. Fairchild b. 1942
A glass wand
of autumn light breaks over the backboard.
For beauty sleep, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins.
from The History of Poetry / by Peter Cooley
Centuries yawned and fell back, stuporous,
eons stretched out
For moths, from the University of Florida journal, subtropics, Winter/Spring 2011.
from Dear Winged / by Erin Murphy
Cacophony of moths. Fragile
as egg shells.
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