Poetry | Thursday, January 10,2013

post-holiday poem

NPR’s this american life had stories about thelengths some parents have gone to make thegood saint real I was too young to recall whenhe brought our pony but there are photos ofmy sisters and me

Poetry | Thursday, January 3,2013

skylark poem # 1

By Jacqueline Jackson

skylark poem # 1 I am thankful to those who made usmemorize as kids useful stuff yes likemultiplication tables but I’m thinkingof poetry miss lala dixon my eighth gradeenglish teacher she of the

Poetry | Thursday, December 27,2012

advice poem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

advice poem #1how about let’s end the year witha little bawdiness I just bid goodbyeto a van of cousins passing throughfed them at the holy land thomas’smeal was a plateful of black olives

Poetry | Thursday, December 20,2012

My gift

By Jacqueline Jackson

My giftThis poem was written by my mother,Vera Wardner Dougan, to my father,for their first Christmas together, 1924. I am repeating it from last year, for it is so simple, appropriate and tender. If

Poetry | Thursday, December 13,2012

rhyming poem # 22

By Jacqueline Jackson

“It’s no poem without rhymes!”Amaiya, neighbor friend, avowed.“I have learned it now in school,Poems rhyme, and that’s the rule!So none of yours in Illinois TimesAre trul

Poetry | Thursday, December 6,2012

puzzle poem # 1

By Jacqueline Jackson

puzzle poem # 1when feeding the red phalaropeoften swims in circles forming asmall whirlpool this nugget gainedfrom jigzone.com I often ease intothe day by doing the daily puzzletoday’s is the b

Poetry | Thursday, November 29,2012

tailsuppoem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

the famous sculptor casting carl sandburgin bronze added a nubian goat to the pedestal(sandburg liked goats) the galesburg committeewants the tail down the sculptor objects I agreelet me tell you abou

Poetry | Wednesday, November 21,2012

cosmologypoem # 9

By Jacqueline Jackson

cosmologypoem # 9before dawn tomorrow is the prime timeto see leonids 20 shooting stars anhour predicted – one every three minuteswith me not acclimated yet to the timechange I may be up to watc

Poetry | Thursday, November 15,2012

tooth fairy letter #3

(more from annals of elspeth)

By Jacqueline Jackson

dear tooth fairy: I have lost three molars and one eyetooth since you have lastpaid me and you don’t haveto pay me anything if you canarrange with my mom so she gives me a clothes allowance next

Poetry | Thursday, November 8,2012

cantankerous poem #11

By Jacqueline Jackson

can’t believe I’d ever admit jane austenhas written a dull book but just finishedmansfield park last read many years agoit’s incredibly poor why is edmund such adope who’d ever