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Love Poems

Poem of the Day (04-30-2018)

April 30, 2018 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

To celebrate National Poetry Month, The Poetry Box is sharing a Poem-of-the-Day, selected from various anthologies and individual poet collections that we have published over the years.

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Please enjoy today’s selection: “The Wider Rim” by Laura Grace Weldon, which appears in The Poeming Pigeon: Love Poems:

The Wider Rim

After dinner she untied her apron,
then she and my father danced
across scuffed linoleum
between table, sink, and stove.

Dressing for church meetings
and neighborhood parties my mother
wore a girdle, clip-on earrings, polyester dress.
My father wore the width of tie
and length of sideburns other men wore.

Bridge club meant sitting
at vinyl-covered card tables,
no conversation allowed during a hand.
Cups clinked against saucers, forks tapped on plates
almost as silently, afterwards.

As their days now slide
toward the funnel’s neck,
I see the wider rim.

My father tells my mother to hang on,
put your right foot here,
slide the walker,
put your other foot there.
Head hunched, she stops, her eyes
send a letter only he deciphers.

They traverse a slow path
chair to bathroom, bathroom to chair,
shuffling in sync. He says,
See, now you’re dancing Honey.


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Poem of the Day (04-12-2018)

April 12, 2018 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

To celebrate National Poetry Month, The Poetry Box is sharing a Poem-of-the-Day, selected from various anthologies and individual poet collections that we have published over the years.

National Poetry Month, 2018 - Poem of the Day at The Poetry Box

Please enjoy today’s selection: “Kiss, Kisses” by Judith Arcana, which appears in The Poeming Pigeon: Love Poems:

Kiss, Kisses

Kisses like warm feathers
hands on my neck, lifting my hair
fingers twist, braid through dark waves;
you bend and slide and kiss
throat, shoulders, collarbone’s
small open place there
there

Kisses whisper at my back
moan into my thighs, calling down
light from the Mars-red moon, glowing
over the lake; at the pier’s end
a swell rises, slipping bright water
up, over, to kiss skin
skin


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The Poeming Pigeon: Love Poems – Book Launch

November 7, 2017 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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Saturday, Dec 9, 2017
2:00-4:00 pm

The Poeming Pigeon:
Love Poems
Book Launch

at

Milwaukie Poetry Series
The Pond House
(at the Ledding Library)
2215 SE Harrison Street
Milwaukie, OR 97222

Featured readers include:
Barbara A. Meier • Brad G. Garber • Carolyn Martin • Claudia F. Savage • Delia Garigan • Eleanor Kedney • Elizabeth Stoessl • Eric le Fatte • Judith Arcana • Linda Ferguson • Liz Nakazawa • Marilyn Johnston • Pattie Palmer-Baker • RW Jagodnik • Shawn Aveningo Sanders • Sherri Levine • Tricia Knoll

Everyone welcome to attend and share the love.

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.


Enjoy a few photos from the reading:

Shawn's IntroHappy Birthday Tom HoganBarbara MeierBrad GarberCarolyn MartinClaudia SavageDelia GariganElizabeth StoesslEric Le FatteJudith ArcanaLinda FergusonMarilyn JohnstonPattie Palmer-BakerRW JadognikShawn Aveningo SandersSherri LevineTricia Knoll

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