Sunday, March 24, 2019

洞月亮 Cave Moon Press March 2019

FEATURED POET: BETTY SCOTT'S poems are influenced by California, Oregon and Washington landscapes. She earned degrees from U.C.L.A., Central Washington University and Western Washington University and taught in community colleges before retiring into her daily writing life. She enjoys editing her daughter’s novels as well as poetry and essays by colleagues in Bellingham, WA. She is currently writing a third collection of poems and a book of essays

GENEROUS UNIVERSE

On a walk
as blue jays squawk
I find a wad of money

and in a crack
between cement blocks

a purple and white pansy


AFTER WORDS MEDITATION

In the wake
of black and white
hatred rising

social justice out-
shadowed by slogans and lies
most nights I sit

with a plate of olives
tangy black ones, buttery
Castelvetrano greens

and hold words close
believing in poems as prisms

that shine with light

WRITE YOUR POEM:
Do the seasons shock you every time they arrive?  We had a great deal of snow in February, and now the robins and tulips are popping up.  Seems like a miracle every year.  Take a time to breathe in.  Write a poem in sharpie on the inside of a box. Pack a care package in the box up for someone in need and send it along.

1 comment:

  1. Poems as prisms that shine with light. Congratulations, Betty, on your beautiful book of poems, "Central Heating," as you shine light on all of us.

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