Poet's Corner

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• 'Too many'

  By David Hurley, Swanville - Apr 21
  Too many Indians too many settlers too many chickens too many sardines too many rednecks too many hippies too many gays too many trees too many ...
  

• Poet's Corner, January 2015

  Feb 07
  Well, now that we are mid-storm, mid-winter, mid-thigh in snow, here, for our collective reminder of the life that greens and calls ever still, is ...
  

• Poetry Corner, December 2014

  Dec 06
  This will be the final poetry column of my term as Belfast Poet Laureate. It has been an honor to serve these two years. As I write, the biannual ...
  

• Poet's Corner — October 2014

  Oct 03
  October is upon us, and these huge, bumbling, talkative fowl can be seen in flocks throughout the area. This poem, which truly does them justice, ...
  

• Poet's Corner — August

  Jul 31
  Two for August By William Carpenter of Stockton Springs When I Was A Seeker I Sought Both Night and Day One of the things about living on Route ...
  

• Poet's Corner — June 2014

  Jun 05
  Seasonal In Spring the so-called cherry dogwood, cornus mas, that crowds the low- slung corner of the roof, explodes with a blur of bright ...
  

• Poet's Corner — April

  Apr 03
  In April This I saw on an April day: Warm rain spilt from a sun-lined cloud, A sky-flung wave of gold at evening, And a cock pheasant treading a ...
  

• Poet's Corner, February

  Feb 06
  February is Black History month and we celebrate the outstanding store of works by African American poets. You would certainly enjoy reading and ...
  

• Poet's Corner — December

  Dec 05
  We await, like eager children, the snow and ice that creates a wonderland of stark chill beauty, in all its quiet sheen. Ice Fishing beyond the ...
  

• Poet's Corner, October 2013

  Oct 03
  Mama's Bear Panting, Mama rushed through the front door. "I shot a bear. I think he's dead." "You can't kill a bear with a 22," Daddy said. "it's ...
  

• April Poet's Corner

  Apr 04
  April, though never shy to surprise, is that month of miraculous transformations, be it toward the familiar or profoundly beyond expectations. ...
  

• Poetry Corner, first week of January

  Jan 03
  The new Belfast Poet Laureate is Toussaint St. Negritude. He brings to the position enormous talent, depth and vision. "Throughout and following ...
  

• Poetry Corner

  Nov 08
  A huge turnout, a profusion of programming and phenomenal participants made October's 10th annual Belfast Poetry Festival the biggest and best ...
  

• Poet's Corner — September

  Sep 04
  As I compile September's poetry column, despite the heady warmth of the last gasp of summer, an unmistakable crimson blush is topping a yard maple ...
  

• Poet's Corner — July 2014

  Jul 03
  Summer Met Me Summer met me in the glade, With a host of fair princesses, Golden iris, foxgloves staid, Sunbeams flecked their gorgeous dresses. Ro...
  

• Poet's Corner — May 2014

  May 01
  May Daze Is it possible May could be more than we’d bargained for? How do we forget the albino deer who startled us in the rain? Or that phoebe ...
  

• Poet's Corner — March

  Mar 06
  Birch and Crow “It’s not all black and white,” shrugs Birch, in the snowy dark. “Oh yes it is,” sez Crow, “and more is black like me! You’ll ...
  

• Poet's Corner, January 2014

  Jan 02
  Winter reading and writing are both comfort and challenge in the pale chill and sometimes stormy conditions of January. It is our special gift to ...
  

• Poet's Corner — November 2013

  Nov 07
  Revenant Yes, things come back to me all the time now. what you must understand is, when I say memories, what I mean is, like a huge-eyed beast, it...
  

• Poet's Corner — September

  Sep 05
  Fall, from faellen in Old English, meaning "the fall of the leaf" — probably from the German, fällen to fall. September in Belfast The butter ...