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Poetic License
Memory is each person’s poet in residence. Inspired by Stanley Kunitz. Steam We lift our cups of tea, stare through veils of steam at inner landscapes where time hangs memories on ragged lines of...
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Poetic License
Poetry refreshes the world. -Robert Frost Why I Write Ella Chinn, student I write to create I write about my day I write about all the feelings I had I write to calm myself I write to excite myself. My...
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Poetic License: Relaxing
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. -Samuel Butler Relaxing By Kay McCarrick, guest Poet I enjoy resting on the sofa, in the late afternoon, listening to music,...
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Poetic License: Special Edition
The following poems were sent to the Mamaroneck Review by a reader in the belief their publication would make the author’s holiday season bright. They are presented in that spirit. Silver Song and...
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Poetic License 1-17-14
Found Among my notes, this! There are hobgoblins in my soul. When they get dancing, singing, clapping, laughing, beating drums— I stop and listen! Who wrote these words? I hope I did! Mary Louise Cox,...
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Poetic License 1-31-2014
Picnic in the Snow The tree leans against winter like the urge of change against a mind bare of questions. Beneath this tree we two brush snow from a rock. We make a table there. We celebrate...
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Poetic License 2-21-14
Pretending After all these years I still awaken before dawn pretending it’s my turn on watch as the world spins into light. Until the sky brightens I pretend it’s up to me to see that the world is kept...
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Poetic License 3-14-2014
Poems can awaken the sleeping imagination. Wait Watcher Over time, what have you waited for? Sunshine or rain? A train, a plane? The evening news? A cat to come home? Meaning? Love? A vacation? A...
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Poetic License 4-4-14
Children are symbolic of the beginning and of abundant possibilities. To a former foster child Solange De Santis, Chairman of the Mamaroneck Arts Council Tell me, How does a spirit rise From a place...
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Poetic License 4-18-14
Unclutter your writing time. Simply write down what you hear. “The Spider” The Fate Weaver moves across blackened letters on a plaque feeling for a place to spin. Traveling the word love, it drops a...
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Poetic License 5-9-2014
“Poetry is aimless, not purposeful. The poem is dancing with itself.”— Billy Collins “Observance” At that time I saw further into the roseate glow at the edges of late hour clouds, I was the watcher,...
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Poetic License
The poet’s job is to find a name for everything. -Jane Kenyon Laments From the chapbook, “Shards,” by Mary Louise Cox Sometimes in the morning octaves of a flute path my gray-green woods moontoning...
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Poetic License 6-6-2014
“Ah but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” -Bob Dylan A-HA By Fred Rosenberg, guest poet A survey appearing on e-mail desired the date of my birth; with honesty not...
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