We Fly Through the Air

In April, we shared poems about traveling through the air. Diana hosted, inviting us with a lovely little poem:

Along Jersey’s highways and byways,
I sought a topic for the poems
that we will read when we next gather,
April 13, at Frances’s home.

I wish I could outwit distance
and entertain all you poetic folks
here in my five-cat condo
deep in Queens, New York-Glen Oaks.

Instead I’ve settled on a theme
that can fly high, or far, or wide;
my idea is “traveling through the air,”
as by jet, or feathered wings, or power of mind.

So, with many thanks to Frances,
we return to where it all began.
Note that my culinary skills rely on simple foods
if I don’t enlist the aid of husband Dan.

And I won’t ask Dan to cook, but please to drive,
for to me New Jersey is a shape-shifting state.
I hope to see all of you at our appointed time*
with verses to share, and savor, and debate.
*(As usual, 4 p.m.)

 David Pedlow

Viewed from Another Angle

Antoine de Saint Exupery (1900-1944) – bio

Night Flight

John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922-1941) – bio

High Flight

Anne Sexton (1928-1974) – bio

To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph

Tony Curtis (1946- ) – bio

Icarus

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) – bio

Musee des Beaux Arts

 

Rita Dove (1952- ) – bio

Vacation

Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) – bio

Facing It

Brenda Shaughnessy (1970- ) – bio

Drift

William Stafford (1914-1993) – bio

Knowing Where You Are

Maxine Kumin (1925- ) – bio

Flying

Jack Prelutsky (1940- ) – bio

I Am Riding on a Cloud

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) – bio

Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore

William Carlos Williams (1881-1963) – bio

Landscape With the Fall of Icarus

Read more about ekphrasis poetry such as Williams’ Landscape With the Fall of Icarus and Auden’s Musee des Beaux Arts which were both written about Brueghel’s painting entitled Icarus.

 

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We Feast on Poetry

The theme for February’s meeting was food poems. 

Updated our little Web site be

With notes from our last reverie

Of dressing and undressing free

And of mystery that perplexes me.

Our next meeting already set

On February 24 at 4 don’t fret.

A light repast awaits, you can bet.

Have I disappointed yet?

Then while our appetites we sate

With abundance from the plate

We shall give over to our fate.

With poems about food, let us celebrate.

 Here are the poems that we read. Thank you for all your contributions. Here’s my tribute to you in the style of William Carlos Williams.

This Is What I Say
I have updated
the site
that is on
the Internet

and which
you were probably
waiting
to read

Thank you
Your poems were delicious
so sweet
and so bold

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) – bio

Inviting a Friend to Supper

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) – bio

This Is Just to Say – audio

To a Poor Old Woman  – audio

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) – bio

Feast

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) – bio

Figs

Laura Riding (1901-1999) – bio

Another Apple

Donald Hall, U.S. poet laureate  (1928- )

Summer Kitchen

Wang Ping (1957- ) – bio

Crab and Catfish

Robert Southey (1774-1843) – bio

To a Goose

Ogden Nash (1902-1971) – bio

The Clean Plater

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) – bio

Ode to Tomatoes

Ode to Maize

Ode to an Onion

Jack Prelutsky (1940- ) – bio

Deep in Our Refrigerator

Kim Addonizio (1954- ) – bio

Eating Together

Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) – bio

Point of View

Frank Jacobs – bio

If Walt Whitman Had Written Humpty Dumpty

Carol Muske-Dukes (1945- ) – bio

The Invention of Cuisine

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