EIEIO

Autumn Trees
—EIEIO Poetry From the Missouri Group, The Merry Bombadils,

Courtesy of Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CA
—Photos by Christopher Moon

FADING AUTUMN
—Teresa Klepac 
 
Ember of a sun amid faded summer trees—
I watch leaves in dervish swirl to the ground.
Every golden leaf tossed up by the breeze
igniting red and orange, dried up brown—
offerings rustle at my feet before a walk
to town. 

 Three Doors

WINTER WEAR
—Harold Asner

Each winter I start to go shopping.
I want to see what’s new at the mall. 

Early January, temperature’s dropping,
icy streets, and traffic’s a crawl.
Oh, I guess I’ll just shop next fall. 

2018 Eclipse of the Moon
 

SHE’S MISSING!
—Carol Louise Moon

Evidently, she didn’t wait . . .
inquires before the one-night stand,
encounters with men alone, the date
in Paris, the foreign cruise ship and
oh! the untraceable form in the sand.

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ANY JULY 4TH
—Pat Laster

Ebbing fireworks on the Fourth
indicates the stash is spent.
Enigmatic: What’s the worth
in money wasted. Every cent!
Our pets are not at all content. 

 Hazel's Cafe

INVITATION
—Marie Asner

Each season invites a peaceful bliss
into hearts that hope one finally says,
“Enter and find a special kiss
inside this place with moonlit rays.
Oh, stay no more in hours, but days.”

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Today's LittleNip:

The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.

—Dylan Thomas

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Our thanks to Carol Louise Moon for rounding up some poems from The Merry Bombadils, a group of poets who writes EIEIO’s and sends them to each other for critiquing. There are five members, and they are from several states, but all belong to the Missouri State Poetry Society. Carol Louise “invented” the EIEIO, a five-line poetry form with rhyme scheme A,B,A,B,B. The first letters of lines 1 through 5 are E,I,E,I,O.

And thank you to Carol Louise’s brother, Chris Moon, for his fine photos! “Three Doors” is clever because the third door is implied. 

Today, it might not be too late to attend the Poetry Appreciation Class down at Hart Sr. Center on 27th & J Sts. in Sacramento at 1pm this afternoon, focusing on Edgar Allan Poe with Marie Taylor. Cost is $5; call 916-808-5462 to reg. Then tonight at 6:30pm, Bob Stanley hosts readers Eileen Malone, Kathleen McClung and Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas at the Sac. Poetry Center in Sacramento. And at 7pm, also in Sacramento, at the Avid Reader on Broadway, Mary McGrath and Todd Boyd host Speak Up: The Art of Storytelling and Poetry, presenting poems and stories on the theme of “Ghosted”. Scroll down to the blue column (under the green column at the right) for info about these and other upcoming poetry events in our area—and note that more may be added at the last minute.

—Medusa, celebrating poetry between friends ~

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