Poetry | Thursday, April 4,2013

poetrypoem #11

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

Poetry | Thursday, March 14,2013

babblepoem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

you word lovers out there have youdiscovered babble on the net it’s freefor a bit then continues so withoutstats to help but life membership ispeanuts it’s a combo boggle-scrabble new grid

Poetry | Thursday, March 7,2013

politico poem #11

By Jacqueline Jackson

the institution where once I soproudly taught has introduced a minorcalled liberty studies partly funded bythe koch brothers urbana turned it downbut not us are we so desperate for dough?in the articl

Poetry | Thursday, February 28,2013

downtonabbeypoem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

well it was a crummy tricknot up to masterpiece standardsI understand the brits got hitwith both childbirth deaths onsuccessive christmas days wewere clobbered in februarymatthew it seems and maybesyb

Poetry | Thursday, February 21,2013

inconsequential poem #15

By Jacqueline Jackson

demi said hang on tothat thought whileI empty the hot waterbottle but I don’t knowwhether wonderingwhen and wherebaloney originatedis a thought worthhanging onto

Poetry | Thursday, February 14,2013

zen moment poem #1

by guest poet Delinda Chapman

By Jacqueline Jackson

the next day, in thestillness of the moment,noting the candle’srhythmic flicker I knewthe walls were singing,reverberating from the joyoussounds of forty choir-camp voicesas they raised the roof

Poetry | Thursday, February 7,2013

strange sight poem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

our river flooded and frozewhen the water receded thekids and I winter-hiked inthe sangamon bottomlandeach tree, thick and ancientto sapling slim, was circledabout waist high with a whiteice tutu a va

Poetry | Thursday, January 31,2013

globalwarming poem #5

By Jacqueline Jackson

globalwarming poem #5okay folks we can quit worryingthis human-driven climate change- catastrophic weather is going to be over in about 500 years I heard it from a major scientific mouth saw graphs ph