Poetry | Thursday, May 23,2013

personal pilgrimage poem

her ashes – my brit child’s – were in abaggie about a teaspoonful I left a pinchat the dorset farm she loved another onwhite horse hill near the town of her birthsun wind skylarks br

Poetry | Thursday, May 16,2013

ecopoem #17

By Jacqueline Jackson

ecopoem #17everything livingon this thin skin that supports life has three missions eat to stay alive for the same reason avoid being eaten and breed in order to perpetuate your line so it can go on e

Poetry | Thursday, May 9,2013

earthday-ecopoem # 11

By Jacqueline Jackson

“A major study commissioned by theBritish government concludes in itsyesterday report that rapid andsubstantial spending to combatglobal warming is needed to averta catastrophic reduction in wor

Poetry | Thursday, May 2,2013

earthday poem #3

By Jacqueline Jackson

earthday poem #3went to earthday festivities at union park: encouraging displaysgreeny ideas demonstrationsso cold and rainy not many camethe decorated refrigerators caughtmy heart they should be a tr

Poetry | Thursday, April 25,2013

marathon poem #2

By Jacqueline Jackson

marathon poem #2two unbidden pictures keep fillingmy head neither from tv screens onethat kid younger than my grandsonslying in his pooled blood in the beachedboat waiting for the inevitable he’

Poetry | Thursday, April 18,2013

ZenMomentPoem #2

by guest-poet Delinda Chapman

By Jacqueline Jackson

The visiting choir directorWhen speaking with the childrenAsked their favorite song.As they shrugged their shouldersShe asked then their favorite animal.“Cows” said a boy,“The cows s

Poetry | Thursday, April 11,2013

north fifth street poem #17

By Jacqueline Jackson

north fifth street poem #17 seventy score and seven runners passedmy door this morning many in blue t-shirtsthe lincoln half-marathon: I’ve lived in lincolnland over 40 years now; one getsinocul

Poetry | Thursday, April 4,2013

poetrypoem #11

By Jacqueline Jackson

poetrypoem #11my brother once got booted froma ninth grade english class for his reply to a reprimand “oh butcher spare yon tender calf” sure a poetic quote but archy and mehitabel must no

Poetry | Thursday, March 28,2013

funnybiz poem #6

By Jacqueline Jackson

how about a joke in this spacemy daughter #2 reports shegot a t-shirt for her son had agroup of marshmallows sittingaround a campfire with terroron their faces the marshmallowstoryteller was saying &l

Poetry | Thursday, March 21,2013

obitpoem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

a recent obit in the state j-r istoo good to pass up who wrote itnephew maybe niece the accountis of an ordinary life if such bebirth education job etc etc then“she became adventuresome inher ol