Posts Tagged ‘poem’

Is It Better, Or Is It Worse?

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Is It Better, Or Is It Worse?

[This poem was derived from the author's recent visit to her hometown of St. Paul , MN , the scene of much racial unrest in the 60s. Sheila Boerner (sboerner@esu16.k12.ne.us) teaches English at St. Patrick's Catholic High School in North Platte , NE.]

Worse, I answer.
Most days I feel
we’re going downhill
declining in integrity
discipline, respect, a thing of the past. (more…)

Sometimes

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Sometimes

(Josh Bieber is a student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha .)

Mom and Pop would gently buckle me
Into the back seat of our Datsun
(That’s a Nissan with a smaller engine and more rust),
and Dad would drive us forty days and forty nights,
Eleven hours, all the way to Iowa. (more…)

And In the Afternoon

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

And In the Afternoon

(Josh Bieber is a student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha .)

I would watch the sprinkler
On the front lawn,
Watch it rotate on its axis,
Left to right and back again
Like a typewriter. (more…)

Precious Stones

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Precious Stones

(Dr. Robert James Berry is a professor in the Department of Languages & Communication at Universiti Putra , Malaysia . You can email him at robert_james_berry@yahoo.com)

Cold islands entice me,
like carved stone cathedrals.
Their single mountains are the
exalted white saviors of our continent.
Fallen devils in winter. (more…)