“Irish Poetry soaked in waves of musical imagery and sound” – A Collection of Poems
Pete Mullineaux
Selected poems, from Session
Category:Poetry
Art
Joanna Katzen
Joanna Katzen is a recent graduate of Berklee College of Music. During the course of her studies, she took writing classes in which she discovered nonsense poetry, a form made famous by Lewis Carroll, among others.
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Erica Charis
A mother’s tongue /
forges sounds into syllables /
blowing gently on the sparks /
of recognition, traveling /
from attentive ears to amazed eyes,
Sonnet 23
Jordan Casty
The moon is only good for hanging hats. /
It’s lost whatever magic songs it played /
And now it’s just a night-light for the rats. /
Raspberry Sorbet
April Gompers
A girl with lips the color /
Of raspberry sorbet /
Takes a drag of her last cigarette, /
Or so she says. /
Stained Glass Sea
April Gompers
The colored air that we breathe /
Ricochets from the waves /
Of a stained glass sea. /
The Arboretum
Erin Snyder
A woman in a burgundy trench coat, /
felted black hat, feather topped, /
harboring a thick Boston accent /
meets you on the Linden Path. /
Last Year At Marienbad (Alan Resnais, 1961)
A. Van Jordan
A place, though visible, is like a ghost \
of memories. Even memories one forgets \
linger in the space in which they occurred. \
Here within the expanse of vaulted ceilings, \ ...
M, (Fritz Lang, 1931)
A. Van Jordan
Although it’s quite dark now, the city \
invites me to look for you. The people \
disappear, for the most part, into homes \ ...
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema, 1987)
A. Van Jordan
Often, I find myself in situations
for which there are no adequate epigraphs. \
My days fill with temp work, \
part-time, and I’m in another office, \ ...