Harris Tobias has always found a good home for his seasonal poetry here at vox poetica. Champagne Days By Harris Tobias These are the champagne days The air like a fine dry wine Uncorked for our pleasure Summer exits stage left Her full skirts and throaty song Was growing old Waiting in the wings is […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Mr Baboon
Bobbie Troy is known to vox readers as a master of short poetry. Here she shares a children’s poem originally written for her grandson. Mr Baboon By Bobbie Troy Mr Baboon went to the moon On a beautiful sunny day He said to his son Take care of your Mom And I will be back […]
A Likeness
R Martin Basden gives us something to think about. A Likeness By R Martin Basden From a distance I am the familiar stranger often seen at this crossroads holding a scribbled sign you cannot read you need not read to understand Close your window when I approach check the doors locked shuffle the contents of […]
Rebus
Jean McLeod writes delectable poems. In many varieties. Rebus By Jean McLeod Insight fades from a mind skimmed of imagination beneath bloodless bones under the discouraged droop of loosed skin. Rictus-painted lips beatified once by love and laughter too ripe, now, like fruit on the verge. As words seep away she holds rigid hope that […]
#15
Another in Elizabeth Akin Stelling’s series of prose poems. Look for news about a book of these poems … soon! #15 By Elizabeth Akin Stelling Small brown hands began mixing flour and water for tortillas in an old wooden bowl as the woman explained in Spanglish to my mother, who was sharing too much information […]
Latest Podcast Episode
