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.
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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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