Oh look! It’s another Virginia writer! Kay Middleton lives on the edge of the sprawling Lake Smith in Virginia Beach with her husband. She keeps (or is kept by) a garden and writes poetry, short stories, and novels, although she rather believes these things write themselves. She has a piece to be published in an […]
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Circular Motion
Time, although only a minor theme in this poem, is something Val B. Russell writes very well about. You will remember the delight that is her poem Tic Toc from this column. Time is the undercurrent in Circular Motion. The primary reference, of course, is ambition and the pursuit of empty goals: universal themes and […]
For My Daughter
Something poetic is happening in Virginia! Maybe it’s the history, maybe it’s the Chesapeake, Virginia has contributed great poems to vox poetica. You’ve read the work of Christina Marie Speed, Rae Spencer, and Jean M. Hendrickson. Now read a lovely memory poem by Bob Christin. He is a retired English professor (Ohio State, Notre Dame, […]
Summer
Who better to speak to the joys of summer than a kid sprung from school! Coby Breen will be returning to the confinement of school next month. He is entering the seventh grade. He is also a talented goalie, training in elite programs and keeping penalty kicks off the scoreboard for his soccer club. The […]
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Special treat today from a vox poetica regular, Ray Sharp. Ray has great range; visit his site and see for yourself. This poem, different from the others, is an elegant, sensual word picture. The metaphor is perfection. When you read the words, you see the image and feel the tension in the story. So few words, […]
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