Stephanie
Dodson

Sargam Garg

John Joynt

Karen Kelsay

Autumn Dusk

Half-hidden in the dusk,
sloping roofs clasp autumn branches
to their eaves. Chimney smoke
wanes like a departing armada's sails
into purple skies. No birds rustle above--
In this silence, my thoughts fold
into the graying edge of winter,
where months perish with their moons.

Slow Reader

Long lilac branches, showing years
of growth, protect the tilting trellis
from the sun. A ruby colored hummingbird
flits near the feeder, and a lonely warbler
has begun his chirp-chirp song. One well-worn,
faded wicker chair awaits--warily she sits upon
the dewy seat and elevates her legs; she holds a book,
but stares across the lawn. Those minutes drift
like dream clouds through the sky; she lays
her hat aside, then stretches out her arms to yawn.
Perhaps a cup of tea may help, but oh, to read
another page will do no harm. When shadow
patterns checker on her knee, and move across
her chair, she sighs and rises--quite reluctantly.

Waiting For Spring

October, what will you bestow? You’ve left
the tulips and long daffodils unborn,
and open ferns aloof in darkest glens;
your brown leaves have revealed a scarlet thorn

to snag the frosty mornings. Mallards will
not light upon the weir, and open skies
remove their lightest blue. The fallow rose
is waiting for the spring--and like my eyes,

discolored branches search for green. I’ll count
the small supernal stars that heaven yields
until the dismal gray has passed, then smile
when May’s sweet-smelling earth perfumes the fields.

Karen
Kelsay is a native Californian, who grew up along and on the Pacific, and
explains her love for writing poetry about the sea. At the same time, she has
written narrative, romantic, and fairy-theme poems that were created with other
backgrounds and foreign lands in mind. She attended the University of Alaska
Anchorage, where she studied art and history, and then devoted much time to
traveling. Several of her rhymed and free-verse verses have been published in
Love’s Chance, The Oak, The Shepherd, Designing On
Line, The Storyteller, and Muyori Poetry Journal.

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