Tag: seasonal poetry

• “Suburban Pastoral” by Dave Lucas

  

  Evening descends on a Proustian suburb in Dave Lucas’ “Suburban Pastoral.” Beauty can be found anywhere. Ditto, inspiration. While melodrama and grandeur might seem necessary to make Great Art – the lofty, soul-stirring heights of Gothic architecture, the knee-quaking, awe-inspiring sublimity of the ocean, the mountains, the desert, the night sky – inspiration and beauty…

  forestpunk

  June 16, 2023

  Analog Photography, Photography, Poetry, Polaroids, Writing

  Americana, Cleveland, Dave Lucas, Erato, Memory, nostalgia, Ohio, Poem of the Week, Poetry, poetry themes, seasonal, seasonal poetry, suburban gothic, suburban sublime, suburbia, summer, summertime poems, Sunset, The Sublime, The Suburbs

• Melissa Sullivan – “Fade”

  

  Poet and artist Melissa Sullivan reflects on the impermanence of all things in this short, moving springtime poem. Fade All blooms decayPersephone speaks from her Stygian palaceBright blooms are briefDelicate and easily bruisedWe gather our flowers in MayBut we must accept that they too shall fade About Meliss Sullivan Melissa Sullivan is a hedge-wandering art…

  forestpunk

  April 27, 2023

  Poetry, Writing

  age, Benno Elkan, blooms, Calliope, correspondence web, Erato, flowers, funerary, Melissa Sullivan, Original Poetry, Persephone, Poem of the Week, poems for spring, Poetry, seasonal, seasonal art, seasonal poetry, spring, springtime, springtime poems, the wheel of the year, time