Christmas Lights on Your Daily Poem

I have a Christmas poem to share. I thank Editor Jayne Jaudon Ferrer for including it on Your Daily Poem! https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=4670

Tiny Seed’s new Poetry Anthology!

I thank the folks at The Tiny Seed Journal for including “Penstemon Honey” in this luminous anthology! Here’s a link to the book. https://www.blurb.com/b/11727827-poetry-of-the-wild-flowers

Lemon Pie for Fathers’ Day

Fathers take their pie last, always. It’s an axiom that springs to life the first time you look into your baby’s eyes. I thank editor Jayne Jaudon Ferrer for including “Father’s Day Again” in Your Daily Poem!  Here’s the link: https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=4483

After the Easter Feast

We’ve been busy, so I forgot all about this poem. It was accepted by YDP about a year ago and held until April 8th. I share it now in hopes that it’s not too late to enjoy.https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=4415

Penstemon Honey

I thank the folks at The Tiny Seed Journal for sharing my mountain poem! May I see Penstemons soon again!

https://tinyseedjournal.com/2023/04/16/penstemon-honey-2/

A Celebration of Color!

Marlo and Leslie are standing behind Artist Vivian Pastor’s wonderful ceramic creation at the exhibit opening on April 8^th.  Here’s the poem that inspired Vivian’s art:

Merced Canyon

Like a timid woman’s smile

Spring eases up hillside cheeks

With dawning joy

Of wildflowers,

Not quite sure

Poppies, lupines or 

Shooting stars

Are allowed,

For

Opera buffa orange,

Papillon purple

And yelping yellow

Aren’t bashful

At all.

P.S. Here’s another wildflower poem:

El Niño’s Tears

Poppies, Cinquefoil and Gold-Fields,

Grow in the dry streambed –

Impatient blossoms bursting

Into galaxies of golden novae,

Swirling about their stellar business,

Even though El Niño’s

Reluctant tears

Failed to resurrect

Even an hour of ripples

In Mission Creek.

 Color:Story 2023

April 8, 2023: Opening reception and poetry reading, 6-8PM
March 31 – May 20, 2023: Exhibition on view, Gallery 100, The Silos at Sawyer Yards, 1502 Sawyer St., Houston, Texas, 77007

Color Story — Wildflowers are here!

by Vivian Castor

Allow me to offer a bit of wildflower preview color for you all. I participated in this year’s Color Story ekphrastic art project. Artist Vivian Pastor completed a wonderful ceramic creation inspired by “Merced Canyon”, one of my published Yosemite poems. I’m most pleased to share her accomplishment with you! It will be exhibited at Gallery 100 in Houston, Texas on April 8^th from 6-8 PM. I hope we can collaborate again soon. 

P.S. Here’s the poem:

Merced Canyon

Like a timid woman’s smile

Spring eases up hillside cheeks

With dawning joy

Of wildflowers,

Not quite sure

Poppies, lupines or 

Shooting stars

Are allowed,

For

Opera buffa orange,

Papillon purple

And yelping yellow

Aren’t bashful

At all.